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Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I

Vivekasundaragaṇi (विवेकसुन्दरगणि) is the name of the copyist of the Siṃhāsanadvātriṃśikā (narrating stories from Jain literature), 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.—There are two colophons in this ms. with two different dates and scribe-names: the first scribe, the monk Vivekasundaragaṇi, affiliated to the dharmaghoṣagaccha, copied the work up to the end of the 29th story for his own reading in Patan, VS 1512 (1455 CE). More than a hundred years later, the second scribe, also a monk, but perhaps affiliated to the Sthānakavāsin (title Ṛṣi), copied the work from story 30 up to the end, with slightly less accurately than his colleague.

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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: Gaṇin, Gani, Vivekasundara.

Full-text: Vivekasundara.

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