Mahāvīra
Sūtrakṛtāṅga (The Book of Doctrines)
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Sūtrakṛtāṅga (The Book of Doctrines)
सूयगड (Sūyagaḍa) / सूत्रकृताङ्ग (Sūtrakṛtāṅga)
The second Aṅga, also of an early stratum. It sets out and refutes the doctrines of the rival teachers of Mahāvīra's time —materialists, fatalists, agnostics, ritualists— and warns the monk against the world's temptations. It is a key source for the panorama of the ascetics of the Ganges valley in the time of Mahāvīra and the Buddha. The second part includes Ārdraka's dialogue with Gośāla and with a Buddhist.
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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.
Editions and translations
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English
Mahāvīra
Gaina Sûtras, Part II (reimpresión de SBE 45)
The Conscious LibraryGaina Sûtras, Part II (reimpresión de SBE 45)
Motilal Banarsidass, 1964
Translation: Hermann Jacobi
ISBN 9788120801462
Mahāvīra
The Sûtrakritâṅga Sûtra (en Gaina Sûtras, Part II, SBE 45)
The Conscious LibraryThe Sûtrakritâṅga Sûtra (en Gaina Sûtras, Part II, SBE 45)
Clarendon Press, 1895
Translation: Hermann Jacobi
Dominio público. Dover (reimpresión de SBE 22 y 45 en dos tomos): ISBN 9780486211565 (I) y 9780486211572 (II).
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- 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)
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- Kasāyapāhuḍa (Treatise on the Passions)
Sources
- Jacobi, Hermann (trad.). Gaina Sûtras, Part II: The Uttarâdhyayana Sûtra. The Sûtrakritâṅga Sûtra. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895 (Sacred Books of the East 45). Reimpr. Motilal Banarsidass (ISBN 9788120801462).
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