Mahāvīra
Sūryaprajñapti (Exposition on the Sun)
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Sūryaprajñapti (Exposition on the Sun)
सूरपण्णत्ति (Sūrapaṇṇatti) / सूर्यप्रज्ञप्ति (Sūryaprajñapti)
The fifth or sixth Upāṅga according to the lists: an astronomical treatise describing the movements of the two suns and two moons that Jain cosmology ascribes to Jambūdvīpa, the asterisms and the reckoning of time. It preserves an Indian astronomical system predating Greek influence.
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A Śvetāmbara canonical text of the Upāṅga group, "secondary limbs" associated with the Aṅgas; later than them and anonymous or ascribed to later masters. Fixed at Valabhī; not recognised by the Digambaras.
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- Aupapātika (On Rebirths)
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- Kalpāvataṃsikā (The Ornaments of the Heavens)
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- Puṣpacūlikā (The Flower Crests)
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- Kalpasūtra (Lives of the Jinas)
- Daśāśrutaskandha (The Ten Chapters)
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- Vyavahāra (Procedure)
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- 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)
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- Mahāpratyākhyāna (The Great Renunciation)
- Bhaktaparijñā (The Renunciation of Food)
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- Saṃstāraka (The Straw Bed)
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Sources
- Schubring, Walther. The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources. Trad. Wolfgang Beurlen. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1962 (original alemán: Die Lehre der Jainas, 1935).
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