Jaina Bibliography Part 1

SR No.: 016035
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 1070
Language: English
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 17 MB

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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
155
Pages.
Articles.
Accounts.
260, 261.
Jainism.
Foundation of Jainism; Mahāvíra of Kundagrāma in Videha (Tirhut) near Vaisali; its two sects-division in about 300 B. C.; sacred canon in Prakrit (Ardha-Māgadhi) and its noncanonical writings in Maharashtri; the golden age of Jainism from about A. D. 950 to 1300; its fundamental preceptahimsa; avoid injuring even the smallest insect.
The oldest historical traditions embodied in the Jain and Buddhist scriptures. The kingdom of Magadha; origin of Jainism.
Asoka's patronage of Buddhism, but the older Jain religion continued through all ages to claim multitudes of adherents.
271.
Literary traditions.
273. 298.
Magadha. Adherents.
317-18.
Jainism.
327.
Chālukyas.
331.
Rāshțrakhūtas.
Its mediaeval prosperity in Gujarat and Rājputänä.
Mangalesa (597 A.D.) defeated the Katachchuri king Buddha Rāja, a Jain.
Amoghavarsha I (died in A. D. 877) a follower of Jainism, his adviser Jinasena, part author of Adipurāna.
Influence Jainism on the Tamil and Kanarese literatures. Näladiyar on moral sayings, Kurral. deal with virtue, wealth and pleasure, the Chaintamani, the Nannūl.
Kanarese literature originated, like Tamil literature, in the labours of the Jains.
434–436.
Literature.
436.
Kanarese,
171
W. W. HUNTER. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Second edition. 14 Volumes.-- London, 1885-1887.
Entries in brackets () are from the New Edition (1908).
This work gives, for the districts, the sub-divisions and the towns where some Jains inhabit, the number of the latter according to the census of 1881.