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Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I

Pranārī (प्रनारी) refers to a “relationship with another man’s wife”, representing the seventh addiction (vyasana) characteristic of bad men and kings, 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.). [...] The story is also used here to illustrate the seventh addiction (vyasana) characteristic of bad men and kings, namely relationship with another man’s wife (pranārī, vs. 2). here it applies to king Maṇiratha who went so far as to organize the murder of his brother, Jagabāhu, because he was in love with the latter’s wife, Maiṇarehā.

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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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