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Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I

Lalitāṃgakumārarāsa (ललितांगकुमाररास) is the name of a work by Kṣamākalaśa dealing with the lives of Jain teachers.—The Lalitāṃgakumārarāsa (in Gujarati) 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.—Before embarking upon the story, the author has several introductory verses praising the Jain religion (dharma), and again at the end about the benefits of its practice. The virtues illustrated by Lalitāngakumāra are summed up at the beginning of the colophon. His story is known in independent versions or inserted in various pārśvanāthacaritas: see, for instance, M. Bloomfield, The Life and Stories of the Jain Savior Pārśvanātha, Baltimore, 1919, pp. 26ff.

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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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Partial matches: Lalitangakumara, Rasa, Raca.

Full-text: Somaratna, Punyasena, Lalitangakumara, Kalyanaraja, Somaratnasuri, Sajjan, Kshamakalasha, Amararatnasuri, Sulocana, Amarasena.

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