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Kalpa Sūtra

Bhadrabāhu's lives of the Jinas, above all Mahāvīra, with the succession of elders and the rules for the rainy season.

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  1. 01Kalpa Sūtra 1Lives of the Jinas↗
  2. 02Kalpa Sūtra 2List of the Sthaviras↗
  3. 03Kalpa Sūtra 3Rules for Yatis↗

Kalpa Sûtra, tr. Hermann Jacobi
Hermann Jacobi, 1884

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Gaina Sûtras, Part I: The Âkârânga Sûtra, The Kalpa Sûtra, translated by Hermann Jacobi. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 22, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1884). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. · Source ↗

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