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Vipākaśruta (The Ripening of Deeds)

विवागसुय (Vivāgasuya) / विपाकश्रुत (Vipākaśruta)

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

The eleventh Aṅga: twenty stories, ten on the painful fruits of evil deeds and ten on the happy fruits of good ones, presented as Mahāvīra's answers to Gautama about people he has seen suffer or prosper. It illustrates the Jain doctrine of karma in narrative form.

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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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  • Dundas, Paul. The Jains. 2.ª ed. Londres / Nueva York: Routledge, 2002 (Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices). ISBN 9780415266055.

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