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
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P. 57. The Scriptures of the Jains have been preserved in various forms of Magadhi, the dialect of Behar, Sauraseni, the dialect of Muttra, and Maharastri, the dialect of Maratha country.
P. 58. Literature controlled by Brahmanas or by Jain and Buddhist monks must necessarily represent the system of faith rater than nationality. They must deal with thoughts rather than actions, with ideas rather than events.
P. 150. History of the Jains.
Pp. 151-2.
Pp. 153-4. Date of Parsvanath.
P. 155. Traditional date of Mahavira.
Relation between Brahmans and Jains.
Pp. 156-58. Sketch of the life of Mahavira.
Pp. 159-60.
Nirvana of Mahavira.
Pp. 161-62. Relation between Jains and Buddhists.
Pp. 163-64. Schisms in Jain church.
Pp. 165-66. An Account of Śvetämbaras and Digambaras.
Pp. 167-68. Western settlements of the Jains,
Pp. 169-70. Conservation of the Jains.
P. 275. Unorthodox warrior spirit produced the work of Bhagavatas and that the Bhagavadgita emanates from an un-Brahmanical source is based upon the supposition that the Bhagavadgua and its underlying system of Sänkhya philosophy is an exponent of the free eastern anti-Brahmincal and un-Brahmanical life which produced great heresies of that region, Buddhism and Jainism.
P. 423. Mouthless Indians as noticed by Greek writers Scylax, Hecataous and Etesias are perhaps a sect like Jains who abstained from all animal food and kept their mouth covered lest he should breathe in minute insects.
P. 485. At the time of Megasthenes the Jains were probably still mostly to be found in Bihar and Ujjain.
P. 484.
Greek writers combine with the Buddhists and Jain books and the edicts of Asoka in testifying to the uniquity of the Pravrajitas or Śramaņas.