Background
The Uttarādhyayana-sūtra is a scripture in the Śvetāmbara canon. It belongs to the class known as Mūla-sūtras, which include the most basic texts new mendicants learn at the beginning of their monastic education. It consists of didactic chapters, stories or parables and ascetic poetry teaching the fundamentals of Jainism. For instance, it opens with a chapter on the rules of respect and politeness that all monks have to observe, especially junior ones. It ends with an extensive chapter describing the rich world of living beings according to the Jain conception.
The Uttarādhyayana-sūtra is one of the most frequently illustrated texts.
Glossary
- Source:
Victoria and Albert Museum
- Shelfmark:
IS 2-1972
- Author:
unknown
- Date of creation:
circa 1450
- Folio number:
17 recto
- Total number of folios:
47, folio 25 missing
- Place of creation:
copied in Gulf of Cambay, Gujarat
- Language:
Ardhamāgadhī Prākrit
- Medium:
gouache and ink on paper
- Size:
30 x 11.5 cm
- Copyright:
V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Image Copyright:
Monks
- Source:
Victoria and Albert Museum
- Shelfmark:
IS 2-1972
- Author:
unknown
- Date of creation:
circa 1450
- Folio number:
17 recto
- Total number of folios:
47, folio 25 missing
- Place of creation:
copied in Gulf of Cambay, Gujarat
- Language:
Ardhamāgadhī Prākrit
- Medium:
gouache and ink on paper
- Size:
30 x 11.5 cm
- Copyright:
V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Image Copyright:
Background
The Uttarādhyayana-sūtra is a scripture in the Śvetāmbara canon. It belongs to the class known as Mūla-sūtras, which include the most basic texts new mendicants learn at the beginning of their monastic education. It consists of didactic chapters, stories or parables and ascetic poetry teaching the fundamentals of Jainism. For instance, it opens with a chapter on the rules of respect and politeness that all monks have to observe, especially junior ones. It ends with an extensive chapter describing the rich world of living beings according to the Jain conception.
The Uttarādhyayana-sūtra is one of the most frequently illustrated texts.
Uttarādhyayana-sūtra (Prakrit c.1)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Prakrit c.1 unknown 1465