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Uttarādhyayana (The Last Lectures)

उत्तरज्झयण (Uttarajjhayaṇa) / उत्तराध्ययन (Uttarādhyayana)

Busto de Mahāvīra, período kuṣāṇa (Museo de Chandigarh)
byMahāvīra

Thirty-six lectures in verse and prose, one of the oldest and most beautiful texts of the canon, which tradition identifies with the "thirty-six unasked questions" Mahāvīra recited on the night of his death (Kalpasūtra § 147). It contains teachings on the monk's discipline, parables, King Nami's dialogue with Indra, the exhortation to Gautama "not to be careless for a moment" and the meeting of Keśin, a disciple of Pārśva, with Gautama, which explains the reform of the vows.

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Editions and translations · 3

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Authorship note

A text of the Mūlasūtra group of the Śvetāmbara canon, read in the training of monks; a compilation later than the Aṅgas that tradition links with Mahāvīra's teaching.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Gaina Sûtras, Part II (reimpresión de SBE 45)

    Motilal Banarsidass, 1964

    Translation: Hermann Jacobi

    ISBN 9788120801462

  • The Uttarâdhyayana 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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  • The Uttarādhyayanasūtra, being the first Mūlasūtra of the Śvetāmbara Jains

    Archives d'études orientales, Uppsala, 1922

    Translation: Jarl Charpentier (edición crítica)

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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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