The Sanskrit term Upadeśaratnamālā can be transliterated into English as Upadesaratnamala or Upadesharatnamala, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Jainism

General definition (in Jainism)

Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I

Upadeśaratnamālā (उपदेशरत्नमाला) is the name of a work dealing with the Ethics section of Jain Canonical literature.—The Upadeśaratnamālā (in Rajasthani/Old Hindi) 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.—This Upadeśaratnamālā [Upadeśaratanamālā?] is an anonymous Rajasthani/Old Hindi verse by verse rendering, quasi translation, composed in VS 1770 (1713 CE), of Nemicandra Bhaṃḍāri’s Ṣaṣṭiśataka composed in Prakrit in the 13th century and having the same number of verses. Nemicandra Bhaṃḍāri was a layman from Marwar, very close to the kharataragaccha. The purpose of the work is to give basic notions about right faith, good conduct, good teachers, etc. within the context of lax behaviour of the Caityavāsins and the reaction of rigorous asceticism it provoked. Dharmadāsa’s Upadeśamālā is the main source claimed by the author and directly referred to in vs. 96.

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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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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Upadeśaratnamālā (उपदेशरत्नमाला) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—See Ādeśaratnamālā.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Upadeśaratnamālā (उपदेशरत्नमाला):—[=upa-deśa-ratnamālā] [from upa-deśa > upa-diś] f.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Upadesha, Ratnamala.

Full-text: Adesharatnamala.

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