Jaina Bibliography Part 2

SR No.: 016036
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 900
Language: English
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 15 MB

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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. 172. Hemachandra's Laghavarhan-nitiśāstra or Brief Manual on politics for Jains-a book dealing mainly with civil and criminal law.
P. 182. An extensive astronomical upanga of the Jains, the Suriyapannati, or instruction regarding the sun belongs to the earlier post vedic period.
P. 218. Jains claimed that the Tamil poet Tiruvalluvar, author of the Kurral was a Jain.
P. 219.
The Tamil author of the Naladiyar was probably a Jain.
P. 220. The Tamil epics Sindamani and its imitation Sutamani composed by Jains.
P. 226. Jain literature written in the Gujarati dialect rich, but yet little known.
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Rev. Henry Heras-The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara. Madras, 1927.
P. 536. Jainism was the prevailing religion in the old Karnataka country.
A Śravana-Belgola inscription (Q IMS. III, Pp. 23-8) ays that Jains came to Mysore from Ujjain, under Bhadrabāhu. Statue of Jain saint Bliujabalin erected between 977 and 984 a.d. by Chamundaräja.
P. 538. The royal decree (E.C.L.A. Ma, 18) of Bukka Rāya deciding the dispute between the Jains and the Bhaktas (Vaishnavas) in 1368.
P. 539. Influence of Jainism-Baichappa, a Jain, was minister of Bukka and Harihara II (Hultzsch, SII, I, p. 111) other prominent Jains mentioned in inscription of 1387-8 (EI, VII, Pp. 115-16) 1422 (Ibid, VIII, p. 22), 1426 (Hultzsch, SII, p. 162).
A Jain temple was built in Vijayanagara.
P. 549. The Nayaka family of Ikeri converted many Jains to the Saiva creed (Burnell, IA, II, p. 353).
P. 550. Jaina influence in Kanarese Viceroyalty-statue of Jain saint Bhujabalin set up at Enura (Venur) in 1603-4. Jain priest Chārukirti was the pontiff of Be!gola (Śravana-belgola) Kanarese prince Kinniga Bhüpāla granted money to maintain a Jain temple, in 1591. In 1586, Kārakala chief Bhairava II built a Jain temple at Kārakala, with images of three Tirthankaras, Ara, Malli and Munisuvrata ---temple of the three jewels (E.I. VIII, Pp. 124-5).