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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which are borne out by the modern researches, he is a post-Vikrama figure. This correction and further critical examination of the various Jain chronological tradi. tions leads to the following conclusions :--
(1) The correct date of Mahāvir Nirvāņa appears to be 430 (470-40 years of Nahavāna's reign) before the commencement of the Vikrama era or 488 B.C.
(2) Chandragupta Maurya's reign commenced in 325 B.C.
(3) The reign of Nahapāna commenced with 78 A.D. and the saka era reckoned from this date seems to be connected with him.
(4) 320 A.D. is obtained as the initial year of the Gupta era.
(5) Kalki's reign ends in 512 A.D. The death of the Huen King Toramāna is also placed by some modern historians in the same year. May be that Jain records have preserved the tradition of his reign in the account they give of Kalki. Kalki may be a tribal name reminiscient of Kalkilas of Purānas.
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S. Srikantha SASTRI--The date of Sruh wā arya, (Jain. Ant., Vol. XIII, No. II), Arrah, 1948. Pp. 12 to 17.
Sridharāchärya, the author of Jataka Tilaka, has been generally assigned to the 799 A.D. But analysing different sources he cannot be taken back to the 9th century A.D.
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Sabal Singh-Time of Śrīdharāchārya-(ABORT. Vol. XXX, 1949). P. 271. reference to his work on matters--aye-Jains referred ...
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S. Srikantha SASTRI-The original home of Jainism, No. II) Arrah, 1919, pp. 58 to 62).
Jain. Ant. Vol. XIV,
The antiquity of Aryan traditions-Vedic, Jaina and Buddhistic goes back to at least 20,000 B.C. and the original home of the race must have been in Bhāratavarsa. A comparative study of Susuma and Dussumā Kalpas and of the various legends narrated in the lives of Tarthankaras is necessary in this regard.