Pravachanasara

Pravachanasara
Hindi commentary of Pravachanasara
Information
Religion	Jainism
Author	Kundakunda
Language	Prakrit
Period	mid 2nd Centurty BCE
Verses	275[1]

Pravachanasara is a text composed by Jain monk, Kundakunda, around the mid of second centurty BC. It is aimed at delineating the bases of correct mendicant praxis. In the text, Kundakunda shows how the correct understanding of the duality of self and others leads to that defining characteristic of Digambara mendicant praxis, nudity.^[2]

Acharya Jayasena has written a commentary on Pravachanasara titled Tatparyavritti (i.e. the Purport).^[3]

See also

• List of Jain texts

Acharya Amrutchandra has also written a commentry on Kundkund Acharya's Pravachansara - the text is listed in the reference section below.

Notes

1. Jaini 1991, p. 33.
2. Cort 1998, p. 10.
3. Jaini 1991, p. 139.

References

• Cort, John E. (10 July 1998), Open Boundaries: Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian History, SUNY Press, ISBN 0-7914-3785-X
• Jaini, Padmanabh S. (1991), Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women, University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-06820-3
• Pravachansaar (Pravachanasara) in prakrit, sanskrit, hindi and gujarati text in pdf format can be found at