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| Official name | Acharya Ravisena |
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Acharya Ravisena was a seventh century Digambara Jain Acharya, who wrote Padmapurana (Jain Ramayana) in Sanskrit in 678 AD.[1][2] In Padmapurana, he mentions about a ceremony called suttakantha, which means the thread hanging from neck.[3]
Ravishena and his Padmapurana has been mentioned in Kuvalaya-mālā of Udyotana Suri (Vikram 835) and Jinasena in his Harivansha Purana (Vikram 840).[4]
Padmapurana is said to follow Paumachariya, although it sometimes departs from it. In the Jain tradition, Rama is a Balabhadra, who is non-violent. According to Padma Purana, Ravana was killed by Lakshmana. After having rules for many years, Rama, became a muni and eventually attained nirvana.[5]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Das 2005, p. 123.
- ^ Caillat & Balbir 2008, p. 87.
- ^ Ram Bhushan Prasad Singh 2008, p. 81.
- ^ पद्मपुराणम् - खण्ड 1, Pannalal Jain, Bharatiya Jananpitha, 1958, p. 20
- ^ A Jain take on Lakshman's death, Devdutt Pattanaik, Mid-Day, 02 August,2020
References
[edit]- Caillat, Colette; Balbir, Nalini (1 January 2008), Jaina Studies, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-81-208-3247-3
- Das, Sisir Kumar (2005), A History of Indian Literature, 500-1399: From the Courtly to the Popular, Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-260-2171-0
- Dundas, Paul (2002), The Jains (2nd ed.), Psychology Press, ISBN 978-0-415-26605-5
- Daulatram, Pandit, Acharya Ravisena's Padma Purana (in Hindi)
- Singh, Ram Bhushan Prasad (2008) [1975], Jainism in Early Medieval Karnataka, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-81-208-3323-4
Further reading
[edit]- Raviṣeṇa. Padmapurāṇa, ed. P. Jain, 3 vols, Kashi, 1958–9.
External links
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Media related to Ravisena at Wikimedia Commons
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