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. 474. The Jainas called their way of salvation the ford (tirtha), and the supreme Jaina teachers were, Tirthankaras, 'those making, or providing, a ford'.
P. 492. Vaisali (modern Basarh, in the Hajipur subdivision of the Muzaffarpur District of Bihar Province) the ancient city near which Vardhaman Mahavira, the last of the Tirthankaras (cf. supra, Pp. 221-222) is supposed to have been born.
P. 546. According to Buddhism all beings are to be regarded, respected, and treated as potential Buddha-basically the same view as that of the ancient Jaina system.
Pp. 547-550. Purification of the subtle body: according to the more ancient, less psychological, more materialistic approach of the Jaina discipline, it is to be brought about by an inhibiting of the physical infux of darkening karmic colour into the crystal of the monad.
Pp. 595-96. The ruthless asceticism of the 'naked philosophers' (the 'gymnosophists' who astounded Alexander's Greeks) followed logically from their resolution to be sterilized of (ajiva) dead material and thus rendered pristine-pure, luminous, and perfect.
Pp. 615-18. Appendix B: Appendix B Historical summary. (Appendix B. Historical Summary):
B.C.
c. 2000-1000 Aryan Invasions of N. India.
325 Alenxander enters N.W. India.
c. 400 B,C.-Rāmāyaṇa
200 A.D. (present form).
c. 3500-1500
c.
C.
?
(Indus Valley Ruins).
B.C.
563-483
Dravidian Civilization
872-772 Pāršāva (23rd Jain Savior).
?
Gosala.
Prehistoric Jaina Saviors.
Buddha.
321-297. Candragupta Maurya. Canakya Kautilya
(Arthaśästra).
c. 274-237 Aśoka.