Mahāvīra
Kalpasūtra (Lives of the Jinas)
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Kalpasūtra (Lives of the Jinas)
कप्पसुत्त (Kappasutta) / कल्पसूत्र (Kalpasūtra), también Pajjosavaṇākappa (Paryuṣaṇākalpa)
The eighth chapter of the Daśāśrutaskandha turned into an independent book, and the most copied and illustrated Jain text. It has three parts: the lives of the Jinas, above all Mahāvīra's —the transfer of the embryo, the fourteen dreams, renunciation, asceticism, omniscience and death at Pāvā—, the list of successors (sthavirāvalī) and the rules for the rainy-season retreat. It is read aloud every year during the festival of Paryuṣaṇa. The illuminated manuscripts from Gujarat of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries are held in museums around the world.
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Authorship note
Ascribed by the Śvetāmbara tradition to the master Bhadrabāhu (4th c. BCE); in its present form it is later and was closed with the Valabhī redaction, as its own § 148 indicates (980 or 993 years after Mahāvīra). The Digambaras do not recognise it and reject episodes such as the embryo transfer.
Editions and translations
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English
Mahāvīra
Kalpa Sūtra of Bhadrabāhu Svāmī
The Conscious LibraryKalpa Sūtra of Bhadrabāhu Svāmī
Motilal Banarsidass, 1979
Translation: Kastur Chand Lalwani
ISBN 9780861862306
Mahāvīra
The Kalpa Sûtra (en Gaina Sûtras, Part I, SBE 22)
The Conscious LibraryThe Kalpa Sûtra (en Gaina Sûtras, Part I, SBE 22)
Clarendon Press, 1884
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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Mahāvīra
The Kalpasûtra of Bhadrabâhu
The Conscious LibraryThe Kalpasûtra of Bhadrabâhu
F. A. Brockhaus (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes), 1879
Translation: Hermann Jacobi (edición)
Dominio público
Deutsch
Mahāvīra
Das Kalpa-sūtra, die alte Sammlung jinistischer Mönchsvorschriften
The Conscious LibraryDas Kalpa-sūtra, die alte Sammlung jinistischer Mönchsvorschriften
O. Harrassowitz, 1905
Translation: Walther Schubring
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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)
- Daśāśrutaskandha (The Ten Chapters)
- Bṛhatkalpa (The Great Code)
- Vyavahāra (Procedure)
- Niśītha (The Penances)
- Mahāniśītha (The Great Code of Penances)
- Jītakalpa (The Customary Code)
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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)
- 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)
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Sources
- Jacobi, Hermann (trad.). Gaina Sûtras, Part I: The Âkârâṅga Sûtra. The Kalpa Sûtra. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1884 (Sacred Books of the East 22). Introducción y textos; reimpr. Motilal Banarsidass (ISBN 9788120801233).
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