Jinaharsha
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Jinaharsha | |
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Personal | |
Born | 17th century |
Died | 18th century |
Religion | Jainism |
Sect | Śvētāmbara |
Religious career | |
Teacher | Shantiharsha |
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Jainism |
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Jinaharsha was a Jain ascetic poet who lived in 17th and 18th century.
He was a disciple of Shantiharsha of Kharatara Gaccha. He spent last years of his life in Anhilwad Patan where his handwritten manuscripts are preserved in Jain libraries.[1]
Works[edit]
Jinaharsha had written more than thirty Rasas, an early genre of poetry. Some of them are Shukaraja Rasa (1681), Shripalrajano Rasa (1684), Ratnasinh Rajarshi Rasa (1685), Kumarpal Rasa (1686), Harishchandra Rasa (1688), Uttamkumar Charitra Rasa (1689), Abhaykumar Rasa (1702), Sheelvati Rasa (1702), Jambuswami Rasa (1704), Aaramshobha Rasa (1705), Vasudeva Rasa (1706). He also wrote more than four hundred devotional poems in the form of Stavana, Sajjhaya, Hundi, etc. His prose includes three Balavabodha. Majority of his works are unpublished.[1]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Amaresh Datta (1988). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature. Sahitya Akademi. p. 1841. ISBN 978-81-260-1194-0.
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- People from Patan district
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- Indian male poets
- Gujarati-language poets
- Indian Jain poets
- Indian Jain monks
- 17th-century Indian Jains
- 17th-century Jain monks
- 17th-century Indian monks
- 17th-century Indian poets
- 18th-century Indian Jains
- 18th-century Jain monks
- 18th-century Indian monks
- 18th-century Indian poets
- 18th-century male writers
- 17th-century male writers
- Śvētāmbara monks