Samayasundara, Samaya-sundara: 2 definitions

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In Jainism
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Samayasundara means something in Jainism, Prakrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

In Jainism

General definition (in Jainism)

Source: University of Cambridge: Jainism

Samayasundara (समयसुन्दर) is the author of a work called the Kālakācāryakathā.—Samayasundara’s version of this story, one among numerous renderings in Prakrit, Sanskrit or Gujarati, was composed in 1609 (V.S. 1666) in Bikaner. The author is a Śvetāmbara Jain monk from the Kharataragaccha, and a prolific and learned author of several compositions in Sanskrit, Prakrit and Gujarati. This text is both in verse and in prose and makes use of all three languages. It belongs to the “later encyclopedic versions” of the story, “that draws from all foregoing versions and possibly also from oral sources. The expansion of the Gardabhilla episode is especially marked”.—(cf. Norman Brown 1933: 34).

Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I

1) Samayasundara (समयसुन्दर) is the author of a manuscript dealing with the Veyāliya chapter Sūtrakṛtāṅga, 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.—[Note: This work is not mentioned among Samayasundara’s works in Jain gurjar Kavio; not published in Samayasundara Kṛti Kusumāñjali.]—The author explains how he paid homage to the lord, i.e. Ṛṣabha, who taught to his sons the Veyāliya chapter of the Sūtrakṛtānga (I.2; kahyo vetālī ajheṇu, 4), then refers to Ārdrakumāra (Sūtr. II.6; vs. 6), to Udaga son of Peḍhāla, a follower of Pārśva (Sūtr. ii.7; vs. 9), and followers of Mahāvīra who are evoked in the same chapter (vs. 11).

Samayasundara (समयसुन्दर) is also the author of various other works: the Jīvarāśi Kṣamāpanā (or Padmāvatī Ārādhanā), the Padamāvatī, the “Dānasīlatapabhāvanā ko coḍhālau”, the Kṣamāchatrīsī, the Sanatkumāra, the Bāhubalisajjahāya, the Vyavahārasuddhacaupaī, the Vyavahārasuddhacaupaī, the “Samba-Pajuna nī caupaī”, Naladavadanticaupaī, Naladavadantīrāsa, Mṛgāvatīcaritra, Gotamasvāmigīta, “Setruñja ro rāsa”, Rāṇapurastavana.

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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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