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NARRATIVE TALE IN JAIN LITERATURE
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CHRONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE
KATHĀNAKA LITERATURE COMPILED BY SATYA RANJAN BANERJEE
Works
Contents and Comments
Chronology by centuries
Author .
Ist cent. A.D.
Kalakācāryakathānaka (Pkt.)
(?)
It is the story of Kālaka who transferred the date of paryüşana festival from the fifth to the fourth of the first half of the month of Bhādra. It is recited by the monks at the end of the Kalpasūtra
10th cent.
Harişenācārya
Brhatkathākosa | More than 157 tales (composition 931- 32 A.D.) (Skt.)
Kathākoşa (Ap)
53 tales
Śrīcandra (941-996 A.D.)
Bhadreśvara (1064-94 A.D.)
Kathāvali (Pkt.)
It narrates the accounts of 63 Salākāpurușa.
Dhanapăla, a Tilaka-mañjari Svetāmbara Jain (wrote in 970
A.D.)
It was composed in about 970 A.D. under Munja Vākpatirāja of Dhārā.
11th cent.
Devendragani (1073 A.D.)
41 chapters
Kathāmaņikosa (Pkt.) (or Akhyānamaņikosa) Kathākośa (last quarter of the 11th cent.) Kathākosa (Pkt.)
27 Stories
239 gāthās
Jineśvara Sūri (1092 A.D.)
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