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Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I

Sanatakumārarāsa (सनतकुमाररास) is the name of a work by Sevaka dealing with Prince Sanatkumāra (the fourth Cakravartin, was the son of King Āsaseṇa and queen Sahadevī in Hastināpura).—The Sanatakumārarāsa (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.—The Sanatakumārarāsa was completed in VS 1617 (1560 CE). The manuscript was copied only 27 years later. The author explains that he has summarized from the Uttarādhyayana commentary (virati, above, is Skt. vṛtti). The Uttarasūtra has only one verse about Sanatkumāra: “King Sanatkumāra, a universal monarch of great power, placed his son on the throne, and then practised austerities” (18.37; Jacobi’s translation in Sacred Books of the east vol. 45 p. 85). But the commentaries thereupon develop an eventful and extensive story with appended episodes. Indeed, the author of this vernacular narrative poem is quite faithful to his source (Śāntisūri’s or Devendra’s commentary). [...]

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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: Rasa, Raca.

Full-text: Udau, Udo, Sevaka, Sanatkumara.

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