Somaratnasuri, Somaratnasūri, Somaratna-suri: 1 definition

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Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I

Somaratnasūri (सोमरत्नसूरि) is the name of a teacher in the lineage of Somaratnasūri: the author of the Lalitāṃgakumārarāsa (dealing with the lives of Jain teachers), 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.—The work was composed in VS 1553 (1496 CE) as stated by the author [Kṣamākalaśa] himself, and the manuscript was copied in VS 1845, testifying to a long transmission of this narrative poem which was still read and written almost 300 years after it was created. [...] The author [Kṣamākalaśa] provides information about his religious affiliation (not in the ed. mentioned above): he was the direct disciple of Kalyāṇarāja, himself disciple of Somaratnasūri, himself of Amararatnasūri. They belonged to the Āgamagaccha.

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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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