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    The Kalpa Sūtra (Sanskrit: कल्पसूत्र) is a Jain text containing the biographies of the Jain Tirthankaras, notably Parshvanatha and Mahavira. Traditionally...
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  • associated with Vedic ritual practice. The major texts of Kalpa Vedanga are called Kalpa Sutras in Hinduism. The scope of these texts includes Vedic rituals...
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    his clothes. The Ācārāṅga Sūtra has a graphic description of his hardships and self-mortification. According to the Kalpa Sūtra, Mahavira spent the first...
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    Sutra (Sanskrit: सूत्र, romanized: sūtra, lit. 'string, thread') in Indian literary traditions refers to an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the...
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    a Sthavirkalpi monk (as described in the Ācārāṅga Sūtra, the Kalpa Sūtra, and the Sthananga Sutra), and thus, white-clad. Śvetāmbaras also consider him...
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    Śvetāmbara Murtipujak monks read and recite the holy text Kalpa Sūtra during Paryushana. The Kalpa Sūtra also prescribes the conduct monks must follow during...
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    Jnatrdharmakathah Kalpa Sūtra Līlāvatīsāra Lokavibhaga Nālaṭiyār Neelakesi Nishitha Nivvāṇalīlāvaīkahā Prasnavyakaranani Purvas Samavayanga Sutra Acaranga Sutra Shantinatha...
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    of the Tattvārtha Sūtra) Jaini, J. L. (1956). Tattvārthasūtram. Delhi. (English translation of the Tattvārtha Sūtra) Tattvartha Sutra with Sarvarthasiddhi...
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  • be derived from the original Ācārāṅga Sūtra and discusses the conduct of a Digambara monk. The Ācārāṅga Sūtra is the oldest agama, from a linguistic...
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    Neminath attained nirvana. It is well described in ancient texts such as Kalpa Sūtra written by acharya Bhadrabāhu. Mount Girnar is a major igneous plutonic...
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    the Kalpa Sūtra the first known text. or depth, and the brief descriptions of the tirthankaras are largely modelled on Mahavira. The Kalpa Sūtra is the...
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    Neminatha is depicted as blowing Krishna's mighty conch is given in Kalpa Sūtra. Rajul's love for Neminatha is described in the Rajal-Barahmasa (an early...
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    from rebirths" and "salvation"). Jain texts like Tattvartha Sūtra and Uttaradhyayana Sūtra discuss austerities in detail. Six outer and six inner practices...
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    female mendicants and disciples. His religious order is mentioned in Kalpa Sutra to have consisted of 84,000 sadhus (male monks) and 3,000,000 sadhvis...
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    one mentioned in the Kalpa Sūtra, a canonical scripture of the Śvetāmbaras. According to the lineage mentioned in the Kalpa Sūtra, Sthulabhadra was, unequivocally...
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  • and inscriptions of the monastic lineage exactly as mentioned in the Kalpa Sūtra, an ancient Śvetāmbara text authored by Acharya Bhadrabāhu. Jainism is...
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    ISBN 978-81-932726-2-6. Jacobi, Hermann (1884). Jaina Sutras, Part I: The Akaranga Sutra, the Kalpa Sutra. The Sacred books of the East. Vol. 22. Vijay K....
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    2001a, pp. 120–122. Jacobi, Hermann (1884). F. Max Müller (ed.). The Kalpa Sūtra (Translated from Prakrit). Sacred Books of the East vol.22, Part 1. Oxford:...
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  • Jainism, the Ācārāṅga Sūtra. The six lessons (second through seventh) of the first lecture of the first book of the Ācārāṅga Sūtra describe these beings...
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    6-8th century). There is other corroborating evidence. In Ghantakrana-kalpa, Vimalachandra mentions him as a vira as well as kshetrapala (guardian deity...
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  • Classical Hindu law in practice Dharmaśāstra Gentoo Code Hindu law Kalpa (Vedanga) Kalpa Sūtra Vajrasuchi Upanishad Yājñavalkya Smṛti Manusmriti, The Oxford...
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  • Discourses of Kalpa Sutra are given by monks. Kalpa Sutra describes life of Mahavira and other Tirthankaras. On the third day, procession of Kalpa Sutra is carried...
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    The Lotus Sūtra (Sanskrit: Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram, Sūtra on the White Lotus of the True Dharma, Chinese: 妙法蓮華經) is one of the most influential and...
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    Vaimānika deities dwell in the Ūrdhva Loka heavens. According to the Kalpa Sūtra of Bhadra-bāhu, the 24th tīrthaṃkara Mahā-vīra himself emerged from the...
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  • all-knowing and provides details of his other qualities. Another text, the Kalpa Sūtra, gives details of Mahavira's omniscience When the Venerable Ascetic Mahavira...
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    Retrieved 1 April 2015. Jacobi, Hermann (1884). F. Max Müller (ed.). The Kalpa Sūtra (Translated from Prakrit). Sacred Books of the East vol.22, Part 1. Oxford:...
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    use of gold. The manuscript text most frequently illustrated is the Kalpa Sūtra, containing the biographies of the Tirthankaras, notably Parshvanatha...
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    is a particularly popular day to worship the Goddess. Bhairava-Padmavati-Kalpa written by Mallisena in 12th century is tantric text to worship Padmavati...
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    and sculpture. According to the second chapter of the Śvētāmbara Ācārāṅga Sūtra, Siddhartha and his family were devotees of Parshvanatha.After his death...
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    and succeeded Bhadrabahu in the Pattavali as per the writings of the Kalpa Sūtra. He is mentioned in the 12th-century Jain text Parisistaparvan (appendix...
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