Adipurana: Sanskrit Text with English Translation
author: Shantilal Nagar
edition: 2011, Eastern Book Linkers
pages: 1288
ISBN-10: 9788178542027
Topic: Jainism
Chapter 39 - Discourse on Various Types of Performances
This page describes Discourse on Various Types of Performances which is the thirty-ninth chapter located on page 971 of the second volume in the book: Adipurana (Sanskrit Text with English Translation) by Shantilal Nagar. This book is the English translation of the Adi Purana which is an important piece of literature in Digambara Jainism and deals with the life story of lord Rishabhadeva and his ten incarnations while also providing a sketch of Jaina traditions, culture and history. This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Discourse on Various Types of Performances” according to 10 books dealing with Jainism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Yogadrstisamuccaya of Haribhadra Suri (Study) [by Riddhi J. Shah]
A person who has gathered knowledge, either from listening or studying the scriptures about various religious precepts as well as performances, his possesses jnana typed understanding. Whether he visits pilgrimage places or does puja etc., all his actions would be the results of his understanding that such performances are the mere cause to get rid of the transmigration. Like buddhi type people, the jnana typed ones do not visit pilgrimage just only because so many other people visit it....
Read full contents: Chapter 5.6 - The three types of Understanding: Budhi, Jnana, Asammoha
Bhagavati-sutra (Viyaha-pannatti) [by K. C. Lalwani]
Bondage with a beginning and with an end has four types, viz., rope type (alapana), lac type (alina), body type (sharira) and body-formation type (sharira-prayoga). Q. 291 Bhante! What is this alapana bondage, pray? A. 291. Gautama! Bondage of the rope type is bondage of hay, grass, logs leaves, etc., with the help of a creeper, rope, thread, kusha, darva, etc., which lasts for less than a muhurta in the minimum and for a countable period of time in the maximum. Such is the rope type bondage....
Read full contents: Part 1 - On bondage
Tattvartha Sutra (with commentary) [by Vijay K. Jain]
These must be taken respectively with the four types of pure meditation–shukladhyana. In the ascetic with threefold activity, the first type of pure meditation–prithaktvavitarka–arises. In the ascetic with just one activity out of the three, the second type of pure meditation–ekatvavitarka–arises. In the ascetic with just the bodily activity, the third type of pure meditation–sukshmakriyapratipati–arises....
Read full contents: Verse 9.40 - The support of the four kinds of pure meditation
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[Adipurana: Sanskrit Text with English Translation: index]
[About the author (Shantilal Nagar)]
[Preface (the Purana tradition)]
[Tradition of Translation of the early Sanskrit works]