Jaina Studies

1. A Comparative Study of Jainism and Buddhism/Sital Prasad. Reprint. Delhi, Satguru, 2003, xxx, 304 p.,Rs.300. US $17 (pbk). ISBN 81-7030-82-7. [Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No. 7]
Contents: Introduction. List of works consulted. 1. Nirvana, Moksha or liberation. 2. Existence of the soul. 3. The path of Nirvana or liberation. 4. Karmas and their fruits. 5. Ahimsa. 6. Why Jainism and Buddhism are the same?
"Jainism is older than Buddhism. Vardhaman Mahavira, the last Tirthankara of the Jainas was the contemporary of Gautama Buddha. The sects organised by the two leaders flourished for centuries together, before and after the Christian era. Although there were differences in the conduct of their monks in as much as the Jaina saints remained naked and the Buddhist monks wore cloths, there were closer resemblances between the two.
"This book on Jaino-Buddhist religion places stress on the common factors on the religious life of the Jaina and Buddhists. On comparing the literature of both, the writer has come to the conclusion that coming in close association each sect has either borrowed from the other or both have derived material from common source. The work is an analytical account of Jainism and Buddhism. It is full of references. The author has exploited all the relevant material in discussing the subject. He has tried to show similarities between old Jainism and old Buddhism and prove that both were one and same at their base; that the old Buddhism was nothing but old Jainism and that Gautama Buddha must have preached the same philosophy that was preached by old Jainism. He has shown that the nature of Nirvana and its path as found in Buddhist Pali books are not different from the nature of Nirvana and its path as given in old Jaina works."

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An Encyclopaedia of Jainism/edited by P.C. Nahar and K.C. Ghosh. Reprint. First published in 1917. 1996, xxx, 706 p., plates, Delhi,Sri Satguru., Rs.500. US$33.
Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Jainism--its philosophy and religion. 2. Predicaments by pre-eminence. 3. Knowledge and its forms. 4. Epistemology and logic. 5. Pratyaksha is really Paroksha. 6. The Jain theory of formal logic. 7. The Jain logic and the "Nayas". 8. The doctrine of Syadbad. 9. Shankar and Syadbad. 10. Examination of Shankar. 11. The doctrine of unity in difference. 12. The universe as a self-existent unit. 13. Theories of evolution. 14. The sankhya philosophy. 15. Causation and compound evolution. 16. God. 17. Soul. 18. The karma phenomenology. 19. Churchianity and the law of karma. 20. Belief in re-birth. 21. Re-birth and karma-sarira. 22. Karma-sarira and oudarika-sarira. 23. Free-will and fatalism. 24. Will and individuality. 25. Causality in the moral world. 26. Classification of karmas. 27. From metaphysics to ethics. 28. The conceptions of virtue and vice. 29. On punya and its fruitions. 30. Papa, vice or sin. 31. Asrava or influx. 32. Bandha or bondage. 33. Samvara or stoppage. 34. Nirjara or dissipation. 35. Moksha or emancipation. 36. Gunasthanas. 37. Jain church. 38. Jain festivals. 39. Jain places of pilgrimage. 40. Jain literature. 41. Jain art and architecture.
"The present book An Encyclopaedia of Jainism, is a compilation forming an epitome having for its basis the most orthodox principles, doctrine and tenets as found in the original work of authority and high antiquity as promulgated on the subject by Jaina speculative writers and conformed to by accurate thinkers in their spiritual inquiries."
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Jaina Sutras, Vol. I. The Akaranga Sutra; The Kalpa Sutra/translated from Prakrit by Hermann Jacobi. New Delhi, Satguru, 2003, liii, 324 p.,Rs.300. US $17 (pbk). ISBN 81-7030-779-1.
Contents: Introduction. Akaranga Sutra: First Book: 1. Knowledge of the weapon. 2. Conquest of the world. 3. Hot and cold. 4. Righteousness. 5. Essence of the world. 6. Cleaning. 7. Liberation. 8. The pillow of righteousness. Second Book: I. First part: Lecture: 1. Begging of food. 2. Begging for a couch. 3. Walking. 4. Modes of speech. 5. Begging of clothes. 6. Begging for a bowl. 7. Regulation of possession. II. Second part: Lecture: 8-14. III. Third part: Lecture:15. The clauses. IV. Fourth part: Lecture: 16. The liberation. Kalpa sutra: I. Lives of the Ginas: 1. Life of Mahavira: Lecture: 1-5. 2. Life of Parsva. 3. Life of Arishtanemi. 4. Epochs of the intermediate Tirthakaras. 5. Life of Rishabha. II. List of the Sthaviras. III. Rules for Yatis. Index


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Jaina Sutras, Vol. II. The Uttaradhyayana Sutra; The Sutrakritanga Sutra/translated from Prakrit by Hermann Jacobi. New Delhi, Satguru, 2003, xlii, 456 p.,Rs.300. US $17 (pbk). ISBN 81-7030-780-5.
Contents: Introduction. Uttaradhyayana: Lecture: 1. On discipline. 2. On troubles. 3. The four requisites. 4. Impurity. 5. Death against one’s will. 6. The false ascetic. 7. The parable of the ram, &c. 8. Kapila’s verses. 9. The Pravragya of King Nami. 10. The leaf of the tree. 11. The very learned. 12. Harikesa. 13. Kitra and Sambhuta. 14. Ishukara. 15. The true monk. 16. The ten conditions of perfect chastity. 17. The bad Sramana. 18. Sangaya. 19. The son of Mriga. 20. The great duty of the Nirgranthas. 21. Samudrapala. 22. Rathanemi. 23. Kesi and Gautama. 24. The Samitis. 25. The true sacrifice. 26. The correct behaviour. 27. The bad bullocks. 28. The road to final deliverance. 29. The exertion in righteousness. 30. The road of penance. 31. Mode of life. 32. The causes of carelessness. 33. The nature of Karman. 34. On Lesya. 35. The houseless monk. 36. On living beings and things without life. Sutrakritanga: First Book: Lecture: 1. The doctrine. 2. The destruction of Karman. 3. The knowledge of troubles. 4. Knowledge of women. 5. Description of the hells. 6. Praise of Mahavira. 7. Description of the wicked. 8. On exertion. 9. The law. 10. Carefulness. 11. The path. 12. The creed. 13. The real truth. 14. The Nirgrantha. 15. The Yamakas. 16. The song. Second Book: Lecture: 1. The lotus. 2. On activity. 3. Knowledge of food. 4. Renunciation of activity. 5. Freedom from error. 6. Ardraka. 7. Nalanda. Index of names and subjects. Index of Sanskrit and Prakrit words.

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Open Boundaries : Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian History/edited by John E. Cort. 1999, vii, 264 p., figs., Rs.280.Delhi, Sri Satguru.. ISBN 81-7030-635-3.
Contents: 1. Introduction: contested Jain identities of self and other/John E. Cort. 2. Haribhadra's analysis of Patanjala and Kula Yoga in the Yogadrstisamuccaya/Christopher Key Chapple. 3. Becoming Gautama: Mantra and history in Svetambara Jainism/Paul Dundas. 4. Hemacandra and Sanskrit poetics/Gary A. Tubb. 5. Erotic excess and sexual danger in the Civakacintamani/James Ryan. 6. Who is a king? Jain narratives of kingship in medieval Western India/John E. Cort. 7. Sweetmeats of corpses? Community, conversion, and sacred places/Michael W. Meister. 8. Ritual culture and the distinctiveness of Jainism/Lawrence A. Babb. 9. Sramanas against the Tamil way: Jains as others in Tamil Saiva literature/Indira Viswanathan Peterson. 10. Jain and Hindu "Religious women" in early medieval Tamilnadu/Leslie C. Ott. 11. The story of the disappearing Jains: retelling the Saiva-Jain encounter in medieval South India/Richard H. Davis. References. Index.
"Open boundaries provides a new perspective on Jainism, one of the oldest yet least studied of the world's living religions. Ten closely focused studies investigate the interactions between Jains and non-Jains in South Asian society, with detailed studies of yoga, tantra, aesthetic theory, erotic poetry, theories of kingship, Goddess worship, temple ritual, polemical poetry, religious women, and historiography. Viewing the Jains within a South Asian context results in a strikingly different portrait from the standard models represented in both traditional western and Indian scholarship."
[John E. Cort is Associate Professor of Religion at Denison University.

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The Unknown Pilgrims : The Voice of the Sadhvis : The History, Spirituality and Life of the Jaina Women Ascetics/N. Shanta. Delhi, Sri Satguru, 1997, 789 p., plates,Rs.750. US $50. ISBN 81-7030-535-7.
"This book permits us to penetrate within one of the most ancient ascetic spirituality, that followed by some 6000 Jaina women ascetics.
"Written with their collaboration, it presents to the reader their life of radical renunciation of which one of the hallmarks is incessant pilgrimage, a regular shifting from one place to the next in a sustained striving towards self-purification, a striving of which the final goal is Nirvana.
"Here then we have before us the whole Jaina tradition, presented through scriptures, ancient texts, biographies, epigraphy and iconography. Here too we may observe its outworking in contemporary daily life and its contribution to inter-cultural and inter-monastic encounter.
"Furthermore, it is not without interest that this study finds its own proper place in an age which is rediscovering feminine values. At a time when so many people are taking a deep interest in Asian spiritualities we find here an original and strictly defined spiritual path and also a spiritual teaching whose strength and subtlety merit our attention and invites us to embark on an authentic spiritual journey."
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Encyclopaedia of Indian Iconography : Hinduism--Buddhism—Jainism/S.K. Ramachandra Rao. Reprint. Delhi, Satguru, 2003, 3 volumes, xviii, 1744 p.,Set.Rs.5000. US $215 (set). ISBN 81-7030-765-1.
"The present publication, Encyclopaedia of Indian Iconography, is intended to focus attention on the traditional details concerning images and their worship. The details given in these volumes are taken entirely from the traditional texts of Agama and Silpa-sastra, like Brhatsamhita, Manasara, Kasyapa-silpa, Isana-siva-guru-deva-paddhati, Silpa-ratna, Padma-samhita, Hayasirsa-samhita, Vaikhanasagama and Rupa-mandana. The entries include not only the Gods and Goddesses of popular so-called Hinduism, but also the divinities of Jaina (both Digambara and Svetambara divisions) and Buddhist (Mahayana) religions. The deities worshipped in Nepal and Tibet are also included. Sadhana-mala has been used for descriptions of Buddhist deities, and Rupa-mandana for Jaina deities. Most of the entries are illustrated by line-drawings of images in temples, monasteries, basadis and in museums. Topics of peripheral interest (like temple-construction, image-making worship rituals and Agama divisions) have also been included here.
"The volumes follow the Sanskrit alphabetical order (akaradi) to facilitate translation into Indian languages. The first volume begins with the words beginning with vowels in Sanskrit alphabet. Followed with mute consonants and the rest of the consonants in the subsequent volumes.
"Among various and synonymous names of the deities, the better known ones have been selected for entry, while cross-references also have been indicated. Wherever necessary, background stories for particular iconographical representations have been given."