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events wbich would have taken place during his casual meetings with someone. Majority of meetings between Mahavira and other thinkers had been materialized after they knew something attractive and important about Mahavira directly or indirectly through Gotama.
But it seems, later the followers of Jainism could not project the outstanding personality of Mahāvira as a religious reformer or as a distinguished thinker of India. Before the firm establishment of Hinduism, the ascetics of the Prakrit Jainism could hardly produce any pioneer work in Sanskrit on philosophy, discussing various views of existing systems,-the work, which could stand in competition with Brahmanism and Buddhism of the time. It would have tended Hinduism to admit the founder of the Jaina faith-Mahāvīra as one of the incarnations of God ! Even the Sanskrit commentaries on the Tattvärthasūtra (the first so far available treatise of Jainism in Sanskrit language) were composed not before the 7th cent. A.D. ! The Jaina monks spent, on the contrary, much of their valuable time till the end of 6th or 7th cent. A.D. to codify their scattered literature, and also in rivalry--not with any other community, - but only with their own fellowbrethren!
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SELECTED WORKS Ācāra-Niryukti :
Ā carūnga-Sütrakrtārga, with their Niryukris, and Slänka's commentaries
on them. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1978. ALSDORF, Ludwig:
1. The Arya Stanzas of the Uttarajjhāya, Mainz, 1960. 2. Beiträge zur Geschichte von Vegetarismuş...... in Indien, Mainz, 1961. 3. Asokas Separatedikte von Dhauli und Jaugada, Mainz, 1962,
Kleine Schriften: articles on :4. Uttarajjhāyā Studies, Indo-Iran. Jenl. Holland, 1962, 5. Vessanatara-Jätaka, 1957. 6. Sasa-Jätaka, 1961. 7. Sivijātaka, Haag, 1968. 8. Das Jātaka vom weisen Vidhura, 1971. 9. Asoka's Schismen-Edikt...... Ind.-Iran. Jrnl. Holland, 1959.
...and many articles on Asokan Edicts... BARNETT, L.D.:
1. The Antagada-dasāo and the Anuttarovavāiya-Dasão, London, 1907. BARTH, A.:
1. The Religions of India, Reprint, Delhi, 1978. BASHAM, A.L.
1. History and Doctrines of the Ājivikas, Reprint : Motilal Banarasidas,
Delhi, 1980, 2. The Background to the Rise of Buddhism, in : Studies in Hist. of
Buddhism, Delhi, 1980.
3. an article on Indo-Aryan in: Michign Uni. Jrnl. USA, 1979. BHATT, B.:
1. Tattvārtha Studies I-II, Madras, 1974. 2. Tattvārtha Studies III, ZDMG, Wiesbaden 1977. 3. On Kundakunda...ZDMG, Wiesbaden, 1974. 4. On structures in Bhagawati, Ind. Tur. Italy, 1983. 5. The Story of Mahavira, Baroda, 1983. 6. Jainism-status nascendi, AIOC Proceedings, 30, Session (Poona 1982).
7. Presidential Address, AIOC 30, Poona, 1982. BHATT, B. and TRIPATHI, C.B.: 1. The Bārasa-Aņuvekkha of Kundakunda, in: Mahāvīra and His Teach
ings, Bombay, 1977.
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