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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Pages 3-9 contain useful information on the Jaina religion, namely:
Review on Jina Deva, legendary founder of the Jainism. Enumeration of 18 Jaina sects, after an anonymous treatise, the "Sabhairngära". Characteristic of three principal sects the digambaras, the Svetämbaras and the Dhundias. List of the 24 Tirthakaras, with varied details on each of them. Classification of Jaina canonical treatises. Review on the four kinds of commentaries, of which these treatises are ordinarily the object: raka, taba, niryukti and cuni. While the canonical treatises are written in präkrit, the commentaries are composed in Sanskrit or in Gujrati, Guzrat and Sindh are the two regions where Jainism is widely prevalent.
Appendices.
P.8. Review on the "Jainipratimapratisthavidhi" a treatises of Sakalacandragani on the manner of consecrating the idols of the Tirthakaras.
Pp. 36-55. List of 106 Jaina manuscripts with brief indication of the contents.
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F. KIELHORN. Report on the search for Sanskrit mss. in the Bombay Presidency, during the year 1880-81-Bombay, 1881.
JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
P.VIII-X. Palaeographical notes on certain ancient forms of signs of numeration after Jaina manuscripts on palm leaves.
Fp. 2-52. Description of the manuscripts on palm leaves collected during the years 1880-81. Almost all these manuscripts concern the Jaina works.
No. 5 "Uttaradhyayanasutravrttisukhabodha", with extracts notably of the colophon.
7. "Upamitabhavapraparakatha, with some extensive extracts.
13. Kaipacury1", commentary in Prakrit and Sanskrit on the "Bṛhatkalpa
sutra".
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16. "Ksetrasamasa", of Jinabhadragani, with commentary by Malayagiri.
Some extracts.
22. "Calukyavamsadvyasrayamahākävya", of Hemacandra. with the first five
stanzas and the final stanza.
46. "Pindaniryuktivrttisisyahica", by Viragani, with long extracts.
47. "Pindavituddhi, in Präkrit, by Jinavallabhagani, with commentary by Yasodevastri,
50. "Moharajaparajaya", play in five acts, of Yatahpala. Some extracts. 58. "Vikesavas pakavṛttisisyahita", with long extracts.