Uttaradhyayana

Uttaradhyayana
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Religion	Jainism
Language	Prakrit

A King and a Monk (recto); Text (verso); Folio from an Uttaradhyayanasutra, LACMA AC1993.225.1

Uttaradhyayana or Uttaradhyayana Sutra is one of the most important sacred books of Jains. It consists of 36 chapters, each of which deals with aspects of Jain doctrine and discipline. It is believed by some to contain the actual words of Bhagwan Mahavira (599/540 - 527/468 BCE) - the 24th Tirthankara in Jainism.

See also

• List of Jain texts

References

Sources

• Cort, John E. (22 March 2001), Jains in the World : Religious Values and Ideology in India: Religious Values and Ideology in India, USA: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-803037-9
• Dundas, Paul (2002) [1992], The Jains (Second ed.), Routledge, ISBN 0-415-26605-X
• Singh, Upinder (2016), A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century, Pearson, ISBN 978-81-317-1677-9
• Uttarādhyayanasūtra, in Pupphabhikkhū (ed.), Suttāgame, vol. 2, Gurgaon, 1954.

External links

• Jacobi, Hermann (trans., 1895), Jaina Sutras, Part II: The Uttarâdhyayana Sûtra; The Sûtrakritâṅga Sûtra. (Oxford: The Clarendon Press). Available at sacred-texts.com and the Wisdom Library