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
Syadvāda discards all absolute judgements and holds that the knowledge of reality has got innumerable characteristics. Points of discussion-World tensions, need of a solution, religio spirituo, physical view, political solution, economic solution, transition to epistemological solution, theory of Syädvāda, syādavāda and anekāntavāda, seven Nayas and their fallacies, doctrine of Saptabhangi, syadvada as a doctrine of seven forms of judgement. Examination of criticisms against syadvada. Syadavāda and world tension.
1920
Heinrich ZIMMER-Philosophies of India. Ed. by Joseph Campbell. London, (2nd ed. 1953).
P. 60 note 23. Dr. Zimmer regarded Jainism as the oldest of the non-Aryan group, in contrast to most accidental authorities, who consider Mahāvira, a contemporary of the Buddha, to have been its founder instead of, as the Jainas themselves (and Dr. ZIMMER) claim, only the last of a long line of Jaina teachers. Dr. ZIMMER believd that there is truth in the Jaina idea that their religion goes back to a remote antiquity, the antiquity in question being that of the pre-Aryan, so called Dravidian period.
Sankhya and Yoga represented a later, psychological sophistication of the principles preserved in Jainism.
P. 96. The records of the Buddhists and Jainas make it possible to study the state of
in the sixth and fifth centuries B.c.
P. 105. Candragupta was an adherent of a non-Vedic creed (that of the Tainas), the roots of which go back to pre-Aryan beliefs in north-western India which had never been quite eradicated by the Brahmans.
P. 158. Originally, Jaina saints went about 'clothed in space' (digambara), i.e., stark naked, as a sign that they did not belong to any recognized group, sect, trade, or community. They had discarded all determining marks ; for determination is negation by specialization.
No. 6. Later on, as a concession, the Jaina holy men donned the white garment and became Svetāmbara, 'clothed in white'.
Pp. 181-279. Jainism.
Pp. 181-204. Pārsva : his life and stories of pre-births described. Pārsvanatha attained liberation in 772 B,C.; born about 872 B.c,