Mahāvīra
Ṣaṭkhaṇḍāgama (The Scripture in Six Parts)
Traditional attribution
Ṣaṭkhaṇḍāgama (The Scripture in Six Parts)
छक्खंडागम (Chakkhaṃḍāgama) / षट्खण्डागम (Ṣaṭkhaṇḍāgama)
A treatise in Śaurasenī Prakrit on karma and the condition of souls, arranged in six parts. For the Digambaras it is the oldest and most sacred text, transmitted according to their tradition from the lost Pūrvas. Its great commentary, Vīrasena's Dhavalā (9th c.), gives its name to the Mūḍbidrī manuscripts, which were published only in the twentieth century.
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Authorship note
A Digambara scripture written down by the monks Puṣpadanta and Bhūtabali (1st–3rd c.) from the teaching of Dharasena, which tradition traces back through the Pūrvas to Mahāvīra. It is not Mahāvīra's work.
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Mahāvīra
Ṣaṭkhaṇḍāgama, con la Dhavalā de Vīrasena
The Conscious LibraryṢaṭkhaṇḍāgama, con la Dhavalā de Vīrasena
Jain Sahityoddharaka Fund, Amraoti, 1939
Translation: Hiralal Jain (edición y traducción hindi)
Publicado en 16 volúmenes entre 1939 y 1958
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)
- Anuttaraupapātikadaśā (Those Reborn in the Highest Heavens)
- 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)
- Kasāyapāhuḍa (Treatise on the Passions)
Sources
- Jaini, Padmanabh S. The Jaina Path of Purification. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979; reimpr. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1998. ISBN 9788120815780.
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