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Technical Sciences in Jaina Canons:
(183)
technology, military science, prognostics and supernatural arts as tabulated in Table 1.
In early days, the religion was defined as a life style from birth to death and from one morning to next morning. Hence, any religious text could deal with any number of subjects useful for knowing and practicing. Generally, no text is found on specified topic in early Jaina literature. Table - 1: Number of Subjects in Different Faculties for General
and Women Studies Faculty General
Women Deptts. Subjects Deptts. Subjects Abstract Science
40
10 Life Science 3. Ayurveda/Indigenous 4
Medicine Home Science
2 Engg./Technology Agriculture Prognostics and 8 38
3 22 Surprising Art Military Science
16 23 130
3
11
8. Military Science
8.
de 16
28
Classification of Jaina Literature
For brevity, we may classify it two-foldly: (1) Pre-Aryarakṣita Age
(2) Post- Aryarakṣita Age (Pre-Christian and early Christian era) (Post-1-204 century, specific literature) (a) 14 Pre-Canons (not existent) (a) Tertiary literature (b) 11 Primary Canons
(b) Exposition literature (c) 20-60 Secondary Canons (14) 1) Cosmology/Astrology/Maths (d) 4 Pro-Canons (Digambaras)
(2) Physics/Chemistry (e) Tertiary literature
(3) Medicine 4) Food Science (5) Engg./Technology (6) Iconography (7) Prognostics/surprising Arts
(c) Current literature The Jains admit six basic constituents in the world - the Jiva, Mattergy, Space, Medium of Motion and Rest and Time indicating we- the Jivas form 1/6 or 16% of the world constituents and for whom
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