Mahāvīra
Anuttaraupapātikadaśā (Those Reborn in the Highest Heavens)
Later compilation
Anuttaraupapātikadaśā (Those Reborn in the Highest Heavens)
अणुत्तरोववाइयदसाओ (Aṇuttarovavāiyadasāo) / अनुत्तरौपपातिकदशा
The ninth Aṅga, a short one: lives of ascetics who, after a life of extreme austerity, were reborn in the highest heavens, from which only one human existence remains before liberation. The portrait of the monk Dhanya, wasted by fasting, stands out.
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Authorship note
Canonical compilation: according to the Śvetāmbara tradition it transmits Mahāvīra's teaching as recited by his disciple Sudharman to Jambū; it was written down at Valabhī (c. 453/466 CE) and contains strata of very different periods. Mahāvīra did not write it. The Digambaras regard the original Aṅgas as lost.
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English
Mahāvīra
The Antagaḍa-dasāo and Aṇuttarovavāiya-dasāo
The Conscious LibraryThe Antagaḍa-dasāo and Aṇuttarovavāiya-dasāo
Royal Asiatic Society (Oriental Translation Fund), 1907
Translation: L. D. Barnett
Other works by Mahāvīra
- The Śvetāmbara canon (the Āgamas) · 453
- Ācārāṅga (The Book of Conduct)
- Sūtrakṛtāṅga (The Book of Doctrines)
- Sthānāṅga (The Stations)
- Samavāyāṅga (The Groupings)
- Bhagavatī Sūtra (Vyākhyāprajñapti)
- Jñātādharmakathā (Parables and Stories of the Doctrine)
- Upāsakadaśā (The Ten Lay Followers)
- Antakṛddaśā (Those Who Made an End)
- Praśnavyākaraṇa (Explanation of Questions)
- Vipākaśruta (The Ripening of Deeds)
- Dṛṣṭivāda (The Exposition of Views, lost)
- The fourteen Pūrvas (lost)
- Aupapātika (On Rebirths)
- Rājapraśnīya (The King's Questions)
- Jīvājīvābhigama (Understanding the Living and the Non-living)
- Prajñāpanā (The Exposition)
- Sūryaprajñapti (Exposition on the Sun)
- Jambūdvīpaprajñapti (Exposition on Jambūdvīpa)
- Candraprajñapti (Exposition on the Moon)
- Nirayāvalikā (The Series of Hells)
- Kalpāvataṃsikā (The Ornaments of the Heavens)
- Puṣpikā (The Flowers)
- Puṣpacūlikā (The Flower Crests)
- Vṛṣṇidaśā (The Ten Vṛṣṇis)
- Kalpasūtra (Lives of the Jinas)
- Daśāśrutaskandha (The Ten Chapters)
- Bṛhatkalpa (The Great Code)
- Vyavahāra (Procedure)
- Niśītha (The Penances)
- Mahāniśītha (The Great Code of Penances)
- Jītakalpa (The Customary Code)
- Uttarādhyayana (The Last Lectures)
- Daśavaikālika (The Ten Evening Lectures)
- Āvaśyaka (The Obligatory Duties)
- Piṇḍaniryukti (On Alms)
- Nandīsūtra (The Auspicious Sūtra)
- Anuyogadvāra (The Doors of Exegesis)
- Catuḥśaraṇa (The Four Refuges)
- Āturapratyākhyāna (The Renunciation of the Sick)
- Mahāpratyākhyāna (The Great Renunciation)
- Bhaktaparijñā (The Renunciation of Food)
- Taṇḍulavaicārika (Reflection on the Grains of Rice)
- Saṃstāraka (The Straw Bed)
- Gacchācāra (Conduct in the Group)
- Gaṇividyā (The Science of the Group Leader)
- Devendrastava (Hymn of the Kings of the Gods)
- Maraṇasamādhi (Death in Concentration)
- Ṣaṭkhaṇḍāgama (The Scripture in Six Parts)
- Kasāyapāhuḍa (Treatise on the Passions)
Sources
- Dundas, Paul. The Jains. 2.ª ed. Londres / Nueva York: Routledge, 2002 (Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices). ISBN 9780415266055.
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