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
1623
Harisatya BHATTACHARYYA-Heroes of the Jain legends. (Jain. Ant., Arrah).
Vol. XIII, No. II, 1948, Pp. 18 to 29.
Comparative study of the Superme being according to the Jain and Brahmanic schools. Narayana, according to Jainism, is a mighty human being ruling over three parts of the earth and according to Brahmanic school the superme. divine principle. The Jain Puranas contain accounts of nine Näräyanas of whom the accounts of Lakṣmaṇa and Kṛṣṇa is of much interest to a student of comparative religion. Nine Prati-Nārāyaṇas, according to the Jains are persons who are. antagonists of Nārāyaṇas-Vedic and Jain accounts studied. Nine Balabhadras are the elder step-brothers of the Nārāyaṇas and are said to be attached fast to them. Of them Padma, otherwise known as Ramachandra and Baladeva is of interest to a student of comparative religion. Jain versions of the stories of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata..
1425
I. The Jain story of the Ramayana, substantially similar to the account of Valmiki, with details and differences discussed.
Vol. XIV, No. I, 1948, Pp. 8 to 21.
Story of the Ramayana continued. The Jains maintain that the Raksasas and vanaras are Vidyadharas, i.e., human beings endowed with Vidya or knowledge of extraordinary arts. The Vedic people denounced the Rakshasas, because they were Jainas and as such disturbers of the sacrificial ceremonies.
The Krishna story in the Jaina Puranas, essentially similar to that of the Vedic Puriņas, with details and differences discussed.
Vol. XIV, No. II, 1949, Pp. 71 to 77.
The Jaina version of the Krishna story continued. The Jaina account shows that the battle of Kurukshetra has a core of actual history. It was an actucal national catastrophe in ancient India, and not a poetic imagination.
1624
Kalipada MITRA-Some Jain Kings and ministers. (Jain. Ant. vol. XV, No. II), Arrah; 1949. Pp. 70-77.
King Durvinita-There are two classes of evidence, one of which places Durvinita the Ganga king in the 5th century, and the other in the 7th century, and the second view seems to be prepounderating.