Hiranandana, Hīrānandana: 1 definition

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Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I

Hīrānandana (हीरानन्दन) or Hīrānandanagaṇi was the teacher of Lālacandragaṇi: the author of the Rūpasenarāyacopaī (dealing with the lives of Jain teachers), which is included in the collection of manuscripts at the ‘Vincenzo Joppi’ library, collected by Luigi Pio Tessitori during his visit to Rajasthan between 1914 and 1919.—The author, Lālacandragaṇi, belonged to the kharataragaccha. He pays respect to Jinasiṃhasūri, the leader of the order during his lifetime, and his direct teacher, Hīrānandana-gaṇi. the stanzas are numbered continuously and the work is divided into 14 ḍhālas [...] The work was composed in VS 1693 (1636 CE) in Meḍatā (information not available in the Udine manuscript).

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Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.

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