The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c35.s3: Chapter VI. The History of the Jains
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Chapter VI. The History of the Jains
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1. SPECIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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The complete bibliography of European and (so far as is known) of Indian literature concerning the Jains up to the year 1906 is given in Guérinot, Essai de Bibliographie Jaina, Paris, 1906 (Annales du Musée Guimet, Bibliothèque d'Études, vol. XXII); further notices given by Guérinot, J.A., 1909: 2, pp. 47 ff. All known inscriptions of Jain character or having reference to the Jains are registered together with references to the literature concerning them in Guérinot, Répertoire d'Épigraphie Jaina, Paris, 1908 (Publications de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, vol. X).
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2. HISTORY AND DOCTRINES OF JAINISM.
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A sketch, by no means exhaustive, of the whole domain of Jain history and literature is given in Barodia, History and Literature of Jainism, Bombay, 1909 (review by Guérinot, J.A., 1910: 1, pp. 378 ff.). A useful summary of the religion is given in Outlines of Jainism by Jagmanderlal Jaini, Cambridge, 1916.
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The most important treatises dealing with the older history and the doctrines of Jainism are the following:
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Jacobi, H. Kalpasūtra of Bhadrabāhu, pp. 1 ff. (Abhandlungen der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft, vol. VII. Leipzig, 1879). —— Introductions to S.B.E. vols. XXII and XLV. —— Das Kālakācāryakathānakam, Z.D.M.G. vol. XXXIV, pp. 247 ff. —— Über die Entstehung der Śvetāmbara- und Digambara-Sekten, ibid., XXXVIII, pp. 1 ff.; XL, pp. 92 ff. —— On Mahāvīra and his predecessors, Ind. Ant. IX, pp. 158 ff. Hoernle, A. F. R. Proceedings of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal, 1898, pp. 39 ff. Bühler, G. Über die indische Secte der Jainas. Wien, 1887. (Translated by J. Burgess, London, 1903.) —— Articles on the Jain inscriptions from Mathurā in the V.O.J. I–V and X. Leumann, E. Die alten Berichte von den Schismen der Jaina, Ind. Stud. XVII, pp. 91 ff. Bloomfield, M. The life and stories of the Jaina Savior Pārcvanātha. Baltimore, 1919. [Based on Bhāvadevasūri, Pārçvanātha Carita, ed. Shravak Pandit Hargovinddas and Shravak Pandit Bechardas, Benares, 1912.]
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The canonical writings of the Jains are exhaustively described by Weber, Über die heiligen Schriften der Jaina, Ind. Stud. XVI, pp. 211 ff., XVII, pp. 1 ff. (translated by Dr H. W. Smyth, in Ind. Ant. vols. XVII–XXI), and in his Katalog der Sanskrit- und Prākrit-Handschriften der Kgl. Bibliothek zu Berlin, vol. II, ii, Berlin, 1888.
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The history and doctrines of Gosāla are treated with references to the literature by Hoernle in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, vol. I, pp. 258 ff.