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. 61. Literature: The partial eclipseh of Sanskrit literature is of political origin; the political dominance which the priestly caste had achieved in the Upper Gangetic Plain by 600 B.C. was not acceptable to the laity of Bihar, and the east ward drift of Brahmanic culture provoked a revolt. in Bihar the Kshatriyas asserted themselves as defacto rulers of society, Buddhism and Jainism are Kshatriya movements; their literature is Prākrit and the older parts of the Epics are Kshatriya documents; 500-150 B.C. the Kshatriya period.
P. 62. Religion: The Pantheistic Philosophy of the Upanishads which elaborated : (1) the so-called 'Brahman--Atman' (worldsoul) metaphysics and (2) the doctrine of transmigration, the foundation on which Buddhism and Jainism built.
The period 600-300 B.C. covers both the formative period of these two religions and also the pericd of their systemization in the form of condensed aphorisms (Suttas, Sütras), affected alike by Buddhists and Jains and Brahmans, by the close of this period the greater part of Buddhist and Jain cannons was probably in being. In the Deccan Jainism, the state religion of Chālukyas and Rāshtraküțas, was dethroned by a double reformation; (1) that of Rāmānuja who developed and improved on the tradition of the Alvārs.
P. 63. Architecture : The Early Cave Period-three main groups : (1) Magadha (of Mauryan date), (2) Orissa (all Jain of about 1 B.C.-Cambridge. Hist. India, I, 638-42), and (3) Western India.
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R. SHAMSASHTRI---Dravidian culture--(ABORI. Vol. XI; 1930, P. 339).
.......in the course of about a thousand years......there occured a schism among the Aryans. First the Jainas and then the Buddhists revolted against the animal sacrifices and succeeded in converting to their new faiths.
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K. Ramavarma RAJA-Epochs of the History of Kerala. (Malabar) (QJMS, Vol. 20, No. 3, 1930; Bangalore).
P. 212. Malabar : The Hindus, the Jains and the Buddhists and the man of the east and west lived side by side following their respective vocations with no hitch or friction. The authors of some of the Tamil classics were the Jains.