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The Lives of Sixty-Three Illustrious Persons, Volume IHemacandra

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The Lives of Sixty-Three Illustrious Persons, Volume I

Adisvaracaritra

by Hemacandra · Helen M. Johnson (trans.)

The first volume of Helen Johnson's English translation of Hemachandra's twelfth-century Trishashtishalakapurushacharitra, published in the Gaekwad's Oriental Series. It contains the life of Rishabha, the first Tirthankara, together with the stories of Bharata and Bahubali, and is the fullest Shvetambara account of the beginning of the present age.

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