Some Aspects of Jainism in Eastern India

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

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Twenty-Four Tirth ankaras and Their Activities and Teachings
"Nirayayalika, an upanga; for translation of Jacobi, SBE, 45, pp. 420ff. "SBE, XXII, pp. 12-13. We have discussed in details later on, see infra. 70C J. Shah, op. cit., p. 83, fn. 5.
?iNotes on Mahāvira's life are to be found especially in the Acaranga-sutra (SBE, XXII. 84-87, 189-202); Kalpa-sūtra (SBE, XXII 217-70). The Acärängasūtra affords us an elaboiate information regarding Mahāvira's life upto his forty-two years, that is, the date of his enlightenment; it does not contain any information about the activities of the last thirty years.
??The teaching ascribed to Nigantha Nātaputta is obscure. It may be said that though it is not an alien to it. And hence we are sharing the view of Jacobi about the identification of Nigantha Națaputta with Vardhamana Mahavira. Jaina-sūtra, part II.
13This place is still called Vasukunda. Proc. of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 1898, p. 40.
7She belongs to the Licchavis. She was the sister of Cetaka who was the head of a tribal confederacy.
76 According to the Kalpa-sutra (SBE, XII) Devanandā saw the following fourteen objects in her dream-an elephant, a bull, a lion, an anointment, a garland, the moon, the sun, a flag, a vase, a lotus lake, the ocean, a celestial abode, a heap of jewels and a flame. TSBE, XXII, XXXI. "JA, VII, p. 143.
"Acāråriga-sútra, p. 193; Kalpa-sútra; W. Schubring, The Doctrines of the Jainas, pp. 32-33.
10 Acăräriga-sútra, p. 193. 1 Ibid., p. 199; Kalpa-sútra, p. 259. 51 Kalpa-sútra, p. 259. " Acåråriga-sútra, p. 199; Kälpa-sutra, p. 259. 88 Kalpa-sútra, pp. 259-60. **Mrs. Stevenson, op. cit., pp. 38-39. Dr. Panchanan Mondal in the Proc. of
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