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
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P. 370.
Longas have been formed by cutting down 1. seated Jaina figure into the required spape (E. C. VII, i. Intro. P. 31).
P. 383.
Tanks : The famous kunigal tank was built in 1394 A. D. by Irugappa, the general of Harihara II, the Vijayanagara king and the author of the Sanskrit lexicon Nanarlha Ratnamala (M. A. R. for 1919, para 31).
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Sanskrit literature : Pujyapäda's Sabdavatāra, a commentary on Panini has not yet been discovered. The earliest reference to Pūjyapāda is in an inscription dated 729-30 A. D. of the time of the Chālukya King, Vijayāditya.
5th century A. D.: Lokavibhāga, a Sanskrit work on cosmography by Simhasūri, a Jain author (5th century A.D. has been found by the Dept. of Archaeology in Mysore. Sarvanandi the copist of this Ms., lived at Päţalika or Pațaliputra, now represented by Tirupa puliyur a part of modern Cuddalore town, which was originally a Jain centre. This town was situated in the Pänarāshtra, or the dominion of the Bāna Kings of the time. This work enables us to fix the period of Pallava King Simhavarma (Pallava). The Saka year given is 380, corresponding to the 22nd year of Simhavarma's reign (458 A. D.); this date gives clue to the kind of literature the Jain scholars studied about the 5th century A. D. Trailokyaprajñapti, a Prakrit work referred to in the Lokavibhāga, shows that Prākrit was also cultivated at that time, though it was fast yielding its place to Sanskrit.
P. 406.
Period of the Kadambas (3rd to 6th century A. D.): The Jain disputant, Samantabhadra, his several Sanskrit works commented upon by Kannada writers; his work Ratnakarandaka. Pūjyapāda, besides Sabdāvatāra, he composed a Sanskrit grammar called Jainendra (one of the eight original authorities on Sanskrit grammar); also known as Aneka Sesha Vyakarana; his other works were, Sarvärthosiddhi, Jainābhisheka and Samādhisatak. Pūjyapādā's disciple Vajranandi founded a Tamil sangha at Madura. This Vajranandi is different from the author of Navastotra (Sr. Bel. Ins. No. 67 of 1129-A, D.).
P. 407.
Padma-charita or Maha-Rāmāyaṇa a work by Ravishenacharya (7th century A. D.); contains one of the earlist versions of the story of Rāma.