Some Aspects of Jainism in Eastern India

Author(s): Pranabananda Jash
Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publisher's Pvt Ltd New Delhi

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Some Aspects of Jainism in Eastern India
Samudravijaya, the father of Nemi and Vasudeva, the father of Kṛṣṇa, were sons of Andhraka-vṛṣṇi, who had eight more sons. Each of these ten persons is known as Dasarha,
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"Jaina Harivamsa, 18.12, Bharatiya Jñānapīṭha, Kashi, 1962.
*Ibid., 55.1-14.
**Ibid., 55-46.
"We learn from the Jaina cononical texts that Rajamati, the wife of Nemi, who had also renounced the world, was appointed the head of nuns. Rathenemi, brother of Nemi, also attained salvation-A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas, p. 151.
40 Jaina Harivamsa, 55.86-108.
"M. Bloomfield, The Life and Stories of the Jaina Saviour Pārsvanatha, 1919. 42To mention a few individual caritras we have Pārśvanātha-caritam by Hemavijayagani; Santinätha-mahäkävyam by Sri Munibhadrasūri; Mallinatha-caritram by Vinayacandrasuri and also by Haribhadra; Mahāvirasvāmī-caritram by Nemicandra, and so on.
"Kalpasūtra-vṛtti by Samayasundra, pp. 164-65.
"SBE, XXII, p. 273. 45Ibid., p. 274.
Uttara. Sut., XXIII.2.
"AN, II, pp. 196ff. 4MN, I, pp. 371ff. "Ibid., pp. 392ff.
"Ibid., pp. 237ff. "Ibid., pp. 371ff.
"Samyutta-nikaya, IV.312ff.
Ibid.. I, 65ff.
"Jātaka, III.1; The Bhagavati-sutra (5.2) mentions the following four monks, viz., Kaliyaputta, Mehila, Kāsava and Anandarakkhiya, belonging to Pārsva's
school.
ugavati-sutra, pp. 136ff.
Ibid., 5.2.
...ugavati-sūtra, 1.9.76.
miles from Bihar Sariff. Pracina Tirthamālā, part I,
"Uttara-sutra, 23-33.
Pasa's postulation was: not to damage anything living, not to commit anything untrue, and neither to take what has not been given nor to give away.... Pasa's fourth commandment would correspond with Mahavira's both fourth and fi'th (sexual abstention and non-possession). Schubring, The Doctrine of the Jainas, pp. 30-31.
"IA, IX, p. 160.
Schubring, op. cit., XXIII; SBE, vol. 45, pp. 420ff.
"CJ Shah, Jainism in North India, p. 7.
SBE. vol. 45, pp. 122-23. "Nāyādhammakahão, part II, ch. 10. "Ibid., para. 148.II.1.