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Bālacandra

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Kapadia, Hiralal Rasikdas (ed.), (1935), pp 301, 302c, cat. no. 331. | work record
Label Bālacanda, ṛṣi, Vi.Saṃ.1675, Luṅkāgaccha, intended reader of Tandulavaicārika with bālāvabodha
Generic Name
  1. Bālacandra
Honorific or Epithet
  1. ṛṣi
Religious Status
  1. Jaina monk (sādhu / muni)
Name and Monastic Position
  1. Bālacandra, muni (muni)

Sources

  1. Kapadia, Hiralal Rasikdas (ed.), (1935), p 302, cat. no. 331, line 16. | work record
Gender
  1. Male (puruṣa)
Religious Affiliation
  1. Jaina (Jaina){R}-Śvetāmbara (Śvetāmbara){D}-Amūrtipūjaka (Amūrtipūjaka){ST}-Lauṃkāgaccha (Luṅkāgaccha){S}

Sources

  1. Kapadia, Hiralal Rasikdas (ed.), (1935), p 302, cat. no. 331, line 14. | work record
Monastic Relationships
  1. Fellow member of a mendicant tradition (sadharma) of: Ratnasī (Ratnaśrī), ācārya, Vi.Saṃ. 1632-1686, Luṅkāgaccha, successor of Malla

Sources

  1. Kapadia, Hiralal Rasikdas (ed.), (1935), p 302, cat. no. 331, line 15. | work record
Roles
  1. Intended reader (paṭhanārthī) of: Rāisaṃghāṇī, Vīradāsa, , śrāvaka, Vi.Saṃ. 1675, scribe of Tandulavaicārika with bālāvabodha
    Object: Manuscript (hastalekha) Pārśvacandra Tandulavaicārika with bālāvabodha. [manuscript] Copied by Vīradāsa. . ms. 292/A1883-84, cat. 331, p 301, 302
    Indian dates: Monday (somavāra) 3 Dark (kṛṣṇa / vadi) Mārgaśīrṣa (mārgaśīrṣa) 1675 Vikrama saṃvat calendar (north India) (vikramasaṃvat (uttara bhārata))
    Gregorian dates: 1618

Sources

  1. Kapadia, Hiralal Rasikdas (ed.), (1935), p 302, cat. no. 331, line 16. | work record
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