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• Sanskrit Hindi⚫ English
Divine Blessings: Acarya 108 Vidyanand Muni
आचार्य समन्तभद्र विरचित रत्नकरण्डकश्रावकाचार
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Acārya Samantabhadra’s
Ratnakarandaka-śrāvakācāra - The Jewel-casket of Householder's Conduct
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• Hard Bound
Published: 2016
Printed on NS Paper
Pages: xxiv + 264
· Size: 16 x 22.5 cm
By:
Vijay K. Jain
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Acarya Samantabhadra's Ratnakarandaka-śrāvakācāra - The Jewel-casket of Householder's Conduct
आचार्य समन्तभद्र विरचित रत्नकरण्डक श्रावकाचार
Divine Blessings:
Acarya 108 Vidyananda Muni
VIJAY K. JAIN
Acarya Samantabhadra's Ratnakaranḍaka-śrāvakācāra (2nd century CE), comprising 150 verses, is a celebrated and perhaps the earliest Digambara work dealing with the excellent path of dharma that every householder (śravaka) must follow. All his efforts should be directed towards the acquisition and safekeeping of the Three Jewels (ratnatraya), comprising right faith (samyagdarśana), right knowledge (samyagjñāna) and right conduct (samyakcaritra), which lead to releasing him from worldly sufferings and establishing him in the state of supreme happiness.
Giving up of the body in a manner that upholds righteousness on the occurrence of a calamity, famine, senescence, or disease, from which there is no escape, is called the vow of sallekhana. All persons with right faith, the ascetic as well as the householder, look forward to attaining voluntary, passionless death at the appropriate time. The treatise finally describes the eleven stages (pratima) of the householder's conduct.
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