Jinarajasuri, Jinarājasūri, Jinaraja-suri: 3 definitions

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General definition (in Jainism)

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Source: University of Cambridge: Jainism

Jinarājasūri (जिनराजसूरि) refers to one of the 70 teachers mentioned in the Kharataragacchapaṭṭāvalī: a Sanskrit text listing the heads or pontiffs (sūri) of the Kharataragaccha, one of the most important Śvetāmbara monastic orders. The Kharatara-gaccha is especially rooted in Rajasthan. The text includes a narration of events in their lives (i.e., of Jinarāja-sūri), and can thus be called a Kharataragacchapaṭṭāvalī

Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I

1) Jinarājasūri (जिनराजसूरि) is the name of a teacher in the lineage of Jinacandrasūri: the author of the Goḍīpārśvanāthastavana (dealing with Pārśva in Jain literature), 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.—As indicated towards the end, this hymn was composed in VS 1722 (1665 CE), on the occasion of a pilgrimage. the author belonged to the kharataragaccha. His lineage was: Jinarājasūri—Jinaratnasūri, his direct teacher. He became sūri in VS 1711 and died in VS 1763.

2) Jinarājasūri (जिनराजसूरि) (alias Rājasamudra) is the author of the Siddhācalastavana (dealing with Sacred places in Jain literature).

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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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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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