Dharasena

Acharya Shri 108 Dharasena Ji Maharaj
Religion	Jainism
Sect	Digambara
Religious career
Disciple(s)	Pushpadanta and Bhutabali

Acharya Dharasena was a Digambara monk of first century CE.

Biography

Āchārya Dharasena, in first century CE, guided two Āchāryas, Āchārya Pushpadant and Āchārya Bhutabali, to put the teachings of Mahavira in the written form.^[1] The two Āchāryas wrote, on palm leaves, Ṣaṭkhaṅḍāgama- among the oldest known Digambara Jain texts.^[2] This was about 683 years after the nirvana of Mahavira.^[3]

Notes

1. Jain, Vijay K. (2012). Acharya Amritchandra's Purushartha Siddhyupaya. Vikalp Printers. p. xii. ISBN 81-903639-4-8. Non-Copyright
2. Dundas 2002, pp. 63–64.
3. Dundas 2002, p. 79.

References

• Dundas, Paul (2002) [1992], The Jains (Second ed.), Routledge, ISBN 0-415-26605-X