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Digambara

Index Digambara

Digambara ("sky-clad") is one of the two major schools of Jainism, the other being Śvētāmbara (white-clad). [1]

105 relations: Aarti, Acharya, Agra, Ahimsa in Jainism, Amer, India, Aparigraha, Aptamimamsa, Arihant (Jainism), Aryika, Asteya, Śramaṇa, Śvētāmbara, Balatkara Gana, Banarasidas, Bhadrabahu, Bhairava, Bhaktamara Stotra, Bhattaraka, Bhutabali, Bispanthi, Brahmacharya, Cambridge University Press, Chandragupta Maurya, Delhi, Dharasena, Digambar Jain Mahasabha, Digambara, Digambara monk, Digambara Terapanth, Dravyasamgraha, Ganadhara, God in Jainism, Gommateshwara statue, Gujarat, Gwalior Fort, Gymnosophists, Heinrich Zimmer, Humcha, Indrabhuti Gautama, Indus Valley Civilisation, Jain Agamas, Jain philosophy, Jain schools and branches, Jaipur, Jinasena, Kamandalu, Kasayapahuda, Kayotsarga, Keelavalavu, Kevala Jnana, ..., Kshetrapala, Kshullak, Kundakunda, Limestone, London, Lotus position, Madhya Pradesh, Mahapurana (Jainism), Mahavira, Manatunga, Moksha (Jainism), Moodabidri, Motilal Banarsidass, Nemichandra, North India, Nudity in religion, Oxford University Press, Parshvanatha, Pattavali, Pearson Education, Prakrit, Prasāda, Pratikramana, Pravachanasara, Pujyapada, Pushpadanta (Jain monk), Rajasthan, Ratnakaranda śrāvakācāra, Routledge, Rowman & Littlefield, Samantabhadra (Jain monk), Samayasāra, Sanganer, Sanskrit, Sāmāyika, Shastra, Shatkhandagama, Shravanabelagola, Siddha, Siddhachal Caves, Siddhasena, Sudharma, Taran Panth, Tattvartha Sutra, Timeline of Jainism, Tirthankara, Truth, Umaswati, University of California Press, Uttar Pradesh, Vikram Samvat, Virasena, Yaksha, Yakshini, Yapaniya. Expand index (55 more) »

Aarti

Aarti also spelled arti, arati, arathi, aarthi (In Devanagari: आरती) is a Hindu religious ritual of worship, a part of puja, in which light from wicks soaked in ghee (purified butter) or camphor is offered to one or more deities.

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Acharya

In Indian religions and society, an acharya (IAST) is a preceptor or instructor in religious matters; founder, or leader of a sect; or a highly learned person or a title affixed to the names of learned people.

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Agra

Agra is a city on the banks of the river Yamuna in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Ahimsa in Jainism

Ahimsā in Jainism is a fundamental principle forming the cornerstone of its ethics and doctrine.

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Amer, India

Amer, now a part of the Jaipur Municipal Corporation, was a city of the Rajasthan state, India.

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Aparigraha

In Hinduism and Jainism, aparigraha (अपरिग्रह) is the virtue of non-possessiveness, non-grasping or non-greediness.

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Aptamimamsa

Aptamimamsa (also Devāgamastotra) is a Jain text composed by Acharya Samantabhadra, a Jain acharya said to have lived about the latter part of the second century A.D. Āptamīmāṁsā is a treatise of 114 verses which discusses the Jaina view of Reality, starting with the concept of omniscience (Kevala Jnana) and the attributes of the Omniscient.

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Arihant (Jainism)

Arihant (italic, italic "conqueror"), is a soul who has conquered inner passions such as attachment, anger, pride and greed.

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Aryika

Aryika, also known as Sadhvi, is a female mendicant (nun) in Jainism.

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Asteya

Asteya is the Sanskrit term for "non-stealing".

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Śramaṇa

Śramaṇa (Sanskrit: श्रमण; Pali: samaṇa) means "seeker, one who performs acts of austerity, ascetic".

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Śvētāmbara

The Śvētāmbara (श्वेतांबर or श्वेतपट śvētapaṭa; also spelled Svetambar, Shvetambara, Shvetambar, Swetambar or Shwetambar) is one of the two main branches of Jainism, the other being the Digambara.

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Balatkara Gana

Balatkara Gana is an ancient Jain monastic order.

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Banarasidas

Banarasidas (b. Jaunpur 15861643) was a Shrimal Jain businessman and poet of Mughal India.

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Bhadrabahu

Bhadrabahu was, according to the Digambara sect of Jainism, the last Shruta Kevalin (all knowing by hearsay, that is indirectly) in Jainism (the other sect, Śvētāmbara, believes the last Shruta Kevalin was Acharya Sthulabhadra, but was forbade by Bhadrabahu from disclosing it).

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Bhairava

Bhairava (Sanskrit: भैरव, lit. frightful) is a Hindu deity worshiped by Hindus.

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Bhaktamara Stotra

Bhaktamara Stotra is a famous Jain Sanskrit prayer.

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Bhattaraka

A Bhaṭṭāraka (भट्टारक "holy one") heads traditional Digambara Jain institutions.

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Bhutabali

Acharya Bhutabali was a Digambara monk.

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Bispanthi

Bispanthi/Visa panth is one of the Digambara Jain sects that follows the leadership of the Bhattaraka, the other one being Terapanthi that opposed the Bhattarakas.

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Brahmacharya

Brahmacharya (Devanagari: ब्रह्मचर्य) is a concept within Indian religions that literally means "going after Brahman".

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Chandragupta Maurya

Chandragupta Maurya (reign: 321–297 BCE) was the founder of the Maurya Empire in ancient India.

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Delhi

Delhi (Dilli), officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), is a city and a union territory of India.

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Dharasena

Acharya Dharasena was a Digambara monk of first century CE.

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Digambar Jain Mahasabha

Digambar Jain Mahasabha is the oldest organisation of lay Jains in India.

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Digambara

Digambara ("sky-clad") is one of the two major schools of Jainism, the other being Śvētāmbara (white-clad).

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Digambara monk

Digambara monk (also muni, sādhu) is a monk in the Digambara tradition of Jainism, and as such an occupant of the highest limb of the four-fold sangha.

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Digambara Terapanth

Digambara Terapanth is one of the sects of Digambara Jainism, the other being the Bispanthi sect.

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Dravyasamgraha

(Devnagari: द्रव्यसंग्रह) (Compendium of substances) is a 10th-century Jain text in Jain Sauraseni Prakrit by Acharya Nemicandra belonging to the Digambara Jain tradition.

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Ganadhara

In Jainism, the term Ganadhara is used to refer the chief disciple of a Tirthankara.

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God in Jainism

In Jainism, godliness is said to be the inherent quality of every soul.

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Gommateshwara statue

Gommateshwara Statue ಗೊಮ್ಮಟೇಶ್ವರ is a high monolithic statue located on Vindyagiri at Shravanbelagola in the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state in Western India and Northwest India with an area of, a coastline of – most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula – and a population in excess of 60 million.

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Gwalior Fort

Gwalior Fort (ग्वालियर क़िला Gwalior Qila) is a hill fort near Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, central India.

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Gymnosophists

Gymnosophists (Greek γυμνοσοφισταί, gymnosophistai, i.e. "naked philosophers" or "naked wise men") is the name given by the Greeks to certain ancient Indian philosophers who pursued asceticism to the point of regarding food and clothing as detrimental to purity of thought.

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Heinrich Zimmer

Heinrich Robert Zimmer (6 December 1890 – 20 March 1943) was a German Indologist and historian of South Asian art, most known for his works, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization and Philosophies of India.

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Humcha

Humcha / Hombuja (Kannada: ಹೊಂಬುಜ) is a small village near Ripponpet, Hosanagara taluk in Shimoga district in the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Indrabhuti Gautama

Indrabhuti Gautama was the Ganadhara (chief disciple) of Mahavira, the 24th and last Jain Tirthankara of present half cycle of time.

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Indus Valley Civilisation

The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), or Harappan Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation (5500–1300 BCE; mature period 2600–1900 BCE) mainly in the northwestern regions of South Asia, extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India.

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Jain Agamas

Agamas are texts of Jainism based on the discourses of the tirthankara.

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Jain philosophy

Jain philosophy is the oldest Indian philosophy that separates body (matter) from the soul (consciousness) completely.

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Jain schools and branches

Jainism is an Indian religion which is traditionally believed to be propagated by twenty-four spiritual teachers known as tirthankara.

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Jaipur

Jaipur is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan in Northern India.

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Jinasena

Jinasena (8th century CE) was one of the several famous Digambara Acharya (head of a monastic order).

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Kamandalu

Kamandalu (Sanskrit: कमण्डलु) or kamandal or kamandalam is an oblong water pot made of a dry gourd (pumpkin) or coconut shell, metal, wood of the Kamandalataru tree, or from clay, usually with a handle and sometimes with a spout.

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Kasayapahuda

Kasayapahuda (also Kasayaprabhrta) is one of the oldest canonical text of the Digambara Jains.

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Kayotsarga

Kayotsarga (काउस्सग्ग) is a yogic posture which is an important part of the Jain meditation.

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Keelavalavu

Keelavalavu (also known as Kilavalavu and Kizhavalavu) is a village in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu, India.

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Kevala Jnana

Kevala jñāna means omniscience in Jainism and is roughly translated as absolute knowledge or supreme knowledge.

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Kshetrapala

Kshetrapala is a guardian deity in Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism.

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Kshullak

A kshullak (or kshullaka, lit. small or junior) is a junior Digambar Jain monk.

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Kundakunda

Acharya Kundakunda is a revered Digambara Jain monk and philosopher.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lotus position

Padmasana or Lotus Position (पद्मासन) is a cross-legged sitting asana originating in meditative practices of ancient India, in which the feet are placed on the opposing thighs.

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Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh (MP;; meaning Central Province) is a state in central India.

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Mahapurana (Jainism)

Mahapurana (महापुराण) or Trishashthilkshana Mahapurana is a major Jain text composed largely by Acharya Jinasena during the rule of Rashtrakuta ruler Amoghavarsha and completed by his pupil Gunabhadra in the 9th century CE.

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Mahavira

Mahavira (IAST), also known as Vardhamāna, was the twenty-fourth Tirthankara (ford-maker) of Jainism which was revived and re-established by him.

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Manatunga

Acharya Manatunga (c. seventh century CE) was the composer of famous Jain prayer, Bhaktamara Stotra.

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Moksha (Jainism)

Sanskrit or Prakrit mokkha refers to the liberation or salvation of a soul from saṃsāra, the cycle of birth and death.

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Moodabidri

Moodabidri (also called Mudbidri, Moodbidre and Bedra), is a town in Dakshina Kannada district.

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Motilal Banarsidass

Motilal Banarsidass (MLBD) is a leading Indian publishing house on Sanskrit and Indology since 1903, located in Delhi, India.

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Nemichandra

Nemichandra Siddhanta Chakravarty (fl. 10th century) was the author of Dravyasamgraha, Gommatsāra (Jivakanda and Karmakanda), Trilokasara, Labdhisara and Kshapanasara.

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North India

North India is a loosely defined region consisting of the northern part of India.

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Nudity in religion

This article on nudity in religion deals with the differing attitudes to nudity and modesty among world religions.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Parshvanatha

Parshvanatha, also known as Parshva, was the 23rd of 24 Tirthankaras (ford-maker, teacher) of Jainism.

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Pattavali

A Pattavali (From Sanskrit patta: seat, avali: chain), Sthaviravali or Theravali, is a record of a spiritual lineage of heads of monastic orders.

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Pearson Education

Pearson Education (see also Pearson PLC) is a British-owned education publishing and assessment service to schools and corporations, as well as directly to students.

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Prakrit

The Prakrits (प्राकृत; pāuda; pāua) are any of several Middle Indo-Aryan languages formerly spoken in India.

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Prasāda

Prasāda (Sanskrit: प्रसाद), variantly spelled as Prasadam, Prasad and Prasada, is a material substance of food that is a religious offering in both Hinduism and Sikhism.

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Pratikramana

Pratikramana (प्रतिक्रमण; also spelled Pratikraman) (lit. "introspection"), is a ritual during which Jains repent (prayaschit) for their sins and non-meritorious activities committed knowingly or inadvertently during their daily life through thought, speech or action.

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Pravachanasara

Pravachanasara, is a text composed by Jain monk, Kundakunda, in about the mid-second century BC.

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Pujyapada

Acharya Pujyapada or Pūjyapāda (464 - 524 CE) was a renowned grammarian and acharya (philosopher monk) belonging to the Digambara tradition of Jains.

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Pushpadanta (Jain monk)

Acharya Pushpadanta (1st century CE) was a Digambara Acharya (head of the monastic order).

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Rajasthan

Rajasthan (literally, "Land of Kings") is India's largest state by area (or 10.4% of India's total area).

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Ratnakaranda śrāvakācāra

Ratnakaranda śrāvakācāra is a Jain text composed by Samantbhadra (second century CE), an acharya of the Digambara sect of Jainism.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949.

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Samantabhadra (Jain monk)

Samantabhadra was a Digambara acharya (head of the monastic order) who lived about the later part of the second century CE He was a proponent of the Jaina doctrine of Anekantavada.

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Samayasāra

Samayasāra (The Nature of the Self) is a famous Jain text composed by Acharya Kundakunda in 439 verses.

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Sanganer

Sanganer is a town situated in Jaipur district, Rajasthan, 16 km south of state capital Jaipur.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Sāmāyika

Sāmāyika is the vow of periodic concentration observed by the Jains.

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Shastra

Shastra (शास्त्र, IAST) is a Sanskrit word that means "precept, rules, manual, compendium, book or treatise" in a general sense.

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Shatkhandagama

(Devanagari: षटखंडागम), literally the "Scripture in Six Parts", is the foremost and oldest Digambara Jain sacred text.

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Shravanabelagola

Shravanabelagola is a town located near Channarayapatna of Hassan district in the Indian state of Karnataka and is 144 km from Bangalore, the capital of the state.

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Siddha

Siddha (Tamil "great thinker/wise man"; Sanskrit, "perfected one") is a term that is used widely in Indian religions and culture.

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Siddhachal Caves

Siddhachal Caves are Jainism-related cave monuments and statues carved into the rock face inside Gwalior Fort, northern Madhya Pradesh, India.

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Siddhasena

Siddhasēna Divākara (सिद्दसेन दिवाकर) was an Digambara monk in the fifth century CE who wrote works on Jain philosophy and epistemology.

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Sudharma

Sudharma (सुधर्मा) is the only daily newspaper published in Sanskrit.

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Taran Panth

The Taran Panth, also known as Taran Svami Panth, Taran Samaj or Taranapanthi, is a sect of Digambara Jainism founded by Taran Svami in Bundelkhand in central India in c. 1505 CE.

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Tattvartha Sutra

Tattvartha Sutra (also known as Tattvarth-adhigama-sutra) is an ancient Jain text written by Acharya Umaswami, sometime between the 2nd- and 5th-century AD.

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Timeline of Jainism

Jainism is an ancient Indian religion belonging to the śramaṇa tradition.

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Tirthankara

In Jainism, a tirthankara (Sanskrit:; English: literally a 'ford-maker') is a saviour and spiritual teacher of the dharma (righteous path).

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Truth

Truth is most often used to mean being in accord with fact or reality, or fidelity to an original or standard.

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Umaswati

Umaswami, also known as Umaswati, was an early 1st-millennium Indian scholar, possibly between 2nd-century and 5th-century CE, known for his foundational writings on Jainism.

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University of California Press

University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh (IAST: Uttar Pradeś) is a state in northern India.

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Vikram Samvat

Vikram Samvat (विक्रम सम्वत्, विक्रम सम्वत्) (abbreviated as V.S. (or VS) or B.S. (or BS))) (also called the Bikrami calendar or sometimes just Hindu calendar) is the historical Hindu calendar of India and Nepal. It uses lunar months and solar sidereal years. It is used as the official calendar in Nepal.

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Virasena

Acharya Virasena (792-853) was a Digambara monk and belonged to the lineage of Acharya Kundakunda.

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Yaksha

Yaksha (Sanskrit: यक्ष yakṣa, Tamil: யகன் yakan, இயக்கன் iyakan, Odia: ଯକ୍ଷ jôkhyô, Pali: yakkha) are a broad class of nature-spirits, usually benevolent, but sometimes mischievous and sexually aggressive or capricious caretakers of the natural treasures hidden in the earth and tree roots.

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Yakshini

Yakshini (also known as Yakshi; Yakkhini in Pali) are mythical beings of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain mythology.

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Yapaniya

Yapaniya was a Jain order in western Karnataka which is now extinct.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digambara

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