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Jinasena (c. 9th century CE) was a monk and scholar in the Digambara tradition of Jainism. He was patronized by the Rashtrakuta king Amoghavarsha I. He was the author of Adipurana and Mahapurana. Jinasena was the disciple of Acharya Virasena and he completed the commentary Dhavala on Ṣaṭkhaṅḍāgama, a revered text in the Digambara tradition. The name is shared by an earlier Acharya Jinasena who was the author of Harivamsa Purana. Acharya Jinasena was a 9th-century CE Jain scholar who belonged to the Panchastupanvaya. He was a disciple of Virasena. He claimed that Rishabhanatha first taught humanity how to extract sugarcane juice and that the fire by itself was not divine. Rastrakuta king Amoghavarsha was his disciple. Jinasena had prohibited the use of meat, honey and other similar materials in Jain rituals due to their connection with violence. He gave recognition to the dvijas (twice-born). He prohibited the use of sacred thread by artisans, dancers and shudras but allowed them to wear dhoti. He preached the importance of Dāna (charity) for Jain households. Jinasena's lineage started with Chandrasena who initiated Aryanandi. Aryanandi initiated Virasena and Jayasena. Virasena initiated six disciples who were Dasharayguru, Jinasena, Vinayasena, Shripal, Padmasena and Devasena. Dasharayguru and Jinasena initiated Gunabhadra who later initiated Lokasena. Vinayasena initiated Kumarasena who started the Kashtha Sangha. He wrote the encyclopedic Adipurana. Mahapurana includes Ādi purāṇa and Uttarapurana, the project was completed by his pupil Gunabhadra. Mahapurana is the source of the famous quote, used by Carl Sagan and many others: Some foolish men declare that creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill advised and should be rejected. If God created the world, where was he before the creation? If you say he was transcendent then and needed no support, where is he now? No single being had the skill to make the world - for how can an immaterial god create that which is material? How could God have made this world without any raw material? If you say that he made this first, and then the world, you are faced with an endless regression.

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Virasena

Acharya Virasena (792-853 CE), also known as Veerasena, was a Digambara monk and belonged to the lineage of Acharya Kundakunda. He was an Indian mathematician and Jain philosopher and scholar. He was also known as a famous orator and an accomplished poet. His most reputed work is the Jain treatise Dhavala. The late Dr. Hiralal Jain places the completion of this treatise in 816 AD. Virasena was a noted mathematician. He gave the derivation of the volume of a frustum by a sort of infinite procedure.

Rashtrakuta

La dynastie Rashtrakuta est une dynastie indienne ayant régné sur le Dekkan entre 753 et 982. À l'origine tributaires des Chalukya de Badami, les cinq premiers souverains de la dynastie ne sont que de simples rajas (Dantivarman, Indra , Govinda , Kakka ou Karka et Indra II). Puis la dynastie s'installe en 753 à Malkhed dans la haute vallée de la Godaveri, apres avoir vaincu et dépossédé les Chalukya de Vatapi. De simples rajas, les souverains Rashtrakuta deviennent maharajas (empereurs).

Sectes Digambara

Digambara (« vêtu d'espace ») est une des deux grandes subdivisions du jaïnisme, l'autre étant la branche shvetambara (« vêtu de blanc »), les deux expressions signifiant que les moines digambara sont complètement nus, tandis que les moines shvetambara portent un vêtement blanc. Cette division serait apparue en 79 av. J.C. (mais on donne aussi d'autres dates), et elle semble due essentiellement à des divergences sur des points de doctrines, renforcées par des querelles religieuses.