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Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I

Maiṃṇarehā (मैंणरेहा) refers to the Sanskrit Madanarekhā (one of the 16 Satīs), according to the “Madanarekhā satī no saṃbaṃdha” (dealing with the lives of Jain female heroes), 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.—Maiṃṇarehā is the vernacularized form of Sanskrit Madanarekhā, who features as one of the 16 Satīs or women who kept to virtue and faithfulness to their husbands despite malevolent attempts from other men (list here vss. 155ff.). [...] Madanarekhā is famous because she was a Satī but also because she was the mother of Nami who is one of the four pratyekabuddhas (cf. Uttarādhyayanasūtra chapter 9 and commentaries). But this episode of Nami’s story is not the focus here. For Sanskrit versions of Madanarekhā story see Madanarekhākhyāyikā ed. Bechardas Doshi with English introduction by n.M. Kansara, ahmedabad, 1973 (l. d. Series 39) or M. Bloomfield, The Life and Stories of the Jain Savior Pārśvanātha, Baltimore, 1919, pp. 130ff.

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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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Full-text: Nami, Namikumara, Camdajasa, Jagabalabha, Padmaratha, Jagabahu, Maniratha, Pranari.

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