Jaina Law Bhadrabahu Samhita

SR No.: 011057
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Total Pages: 146
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 5 MB

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(F) The Yoga Shastra-For copies, see index of books, with a commentary by the author.
(G) The Syadvad Manjari-A hymn in praise of Vardhmâna, in 32 verses, which Hemchandra modelled after the earlier work of the kind by Sidhsena Divakar. 3, App, p. 206. See Weber II, p. 940.
APPENDIX B.
Referred to as the pupil of Devachandra. 1 App., p. 5, is the Bandhu of Pradumna Suri. 3 App., p. 209.
The authority of Hemchandra as Jaina Acharya and writer of distinction and weight is thoroughly established. His Arhana Nity is a well-known work, which is recognized and rerered by Jainns all over India. The defendants rely upon Shlokas 52, 73, 114 and 124 of Arhana Nity.
भ्रष्टे नष्टेच विक्षिप्ते पती प्रजिते मृते ॥
arzı feda ftraremum engcafuri || 43 ||
If the husband has become outcaste, if he has run away, if he has become lunatic, or if he has become an ascetic, or is dead, his good wife becomes the owner of all his preperty (Shloka 52).
qai gara algen: enqvegar gitqs: 1|
बंधुजो गोत्रजश्च स्वस्वामी स्यादुतरोत्तरं । ७३ ॥
On the death of husband, his wife succeeds to his estate; in the absence of his wife, his son; in the absence of his son, his nephew, i.c., his brother's son; in the absence of nephew, his Sapindas; in the absence of any of the Sapindas, his daughter's son; in the absence of daughter's son, Bandhujas; in the absence of a Bandhuja, a person belonging to the same Gotra: in this way, in the absence of one, the next person succeeds to the estate in the given order (Shloka 73).