The Sanskrit term Śrīpuñja can be transliterated into English as Sripunja or Shripunja, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Jainism

General definition (in Jainism)

Source: archive.org: Sum Jaina Canonical Sutras (vividhatirthakalpa)

Śrīpuñja (श्रीपुञ्ज).—A king named Ratnaśekhara reigned in the town of Śrīratnamāla. Grieved at the state of childlessness, he sent out a number of augurs. Seeing Dūrgā on the head of a distressed female carrying fuel, they intimated to the king that her son would be reigning in his place. At the behest of the king, they threw her down into a pit at the dead of night with a view to killing her with child. But as good luck would have it, she somehow managed to come out of the pit. Seized with fear, she gave birth to a son and left him in a forest. The augurs brought her back to the same pit and put her to death. The child left was taken care of by a doe who nourished it with milk, day and night. King Ratnaśekhara at first tried to do away with the son, but later he adopted him as his own son. The latter was named Śrīpuñja. His daughter, Śrīmātā, was one who could recollect the condition of her previous existences. Śrīpuñja had built a temple on the top of the Arbuda mountain.

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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: Arbuda.

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