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  WELCOME - www.jainsamaj.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The classic example of this rare type is that of Acharya Virasena, his disciple Acharya Jinasena, and Jinasena’s disciple Acharya Gunabhadra, who flourished in the 9th and 10th centuries A.D. during the reign of the Rashtrakuta monarchs.
Acharya Virasena is supposed to have written “Siddha-bhupaddhatitika” a learned treatise on the measurement of land as he was a great mathematician also.
Acharya Virasena died after composing 20,000 stanzas of the “Jayadhavala -Tika” which was to consist of 60,000 stanzas.
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 Sacred Books of the Digambaras
Chapters on Karman" This is also called Shatkhandagama, and was composed by Pushpadanta and Bhutabali on the basis of the now lost Drishtivada, and is said to have been composed in the 7th century after Mahavira.
This work is by Gunadhara, and is also based on the Drstivada, and composed in the same age as the Karmaprabhrita.
Its commentary by Virasena and his pupil Jinasena is also respected.
www.jainworld.com /jainbooks/images/18/Sacred_Books_of_the_Digamba.htm   (270 words)

  
 Jinasena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The author of Harivamsha Purana in the 8th century
The author of Mahapurana in the 9th century, he was the disciple of Virasena and he completed his teacher's famous commentary "Dhavala" on Kashayaprabhrita.
Mahapurana includes Adipurana and Uttarapurana, the project was completed by his pupil Gunabhadra.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jinasena   (495 words)

  
 India 4u - Horoscope
Her father laid a curse upon him and destroyed him, his family and every living thing in his kingdom under a thick rain of dust.
DATTAKA The sage who was approached by Virasena, chief of the courtesans of Pataliputra, to lecture them on the sixth part of Babhravya’s work.
He was said to have been turned into a woman after polluting a rite of Shiva and to have experienced lovemaking with both sexes.
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 Magazine SEP 2002: March - Bhopal-Vidisa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Touch that little message from the 4th century AD, saying Chandragupta Vikramaditya was here, because Virasena his minister of war and peace says so.
The locals call it Khamba Baba; the women hang prayer threads to it on a nearby tree.
From Asoka to Virasena to Khamba Baba and then a traffic jam in Bhopal.
www.outlooktraveller.com /aspscripts/mag_art.asp?magid=381&page=1   (564 words)

  
 ubiquit.us blog: "A foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something clever when they are only ...
Jaina mathematicians in ancient India first conceived of logarithms from around the 2nd century BC.
By the 2nd century AD, they performed a number of operations using logarithmic functions to base 2, and by the 8th century, Virasena described logarithms to bases 2, 3 and 4.
By the 13th century, logarithmic tables were produced by Muslim mathematicians.
www.ubiquit.us /blog/archives/2006/07/a_foolish_expedient.html   (2070 words)

  
 Vasanta Navaratri
Preparations were made to crown the prince Sudarsana.
But, King Yudhajit of Ujjain, the father of Queen Lilavati, and King Virasena of Kalinga, the father of Queen Manorama, were each desirous of securing the Kosala throne for their respective grandsons.
Manorama fled to the forest with Prince Sudarsana and a eunuch.
www.sivanandadlshq.org /religions/vasantan.htm   (516 words)

  
 The Mahabharata, Book 3: Vana Parva: Arjunabhigamana Parva: Section XIII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
O exalted one, for thy sake I would have told the son of Vichitravirya--O foremost of monarchs, let thy sons have nothing to do with dice!
--I would have shown the many evils (of dice) through which thou hast fallen into such distress and the son of Virasena was formerly deprived of his kingdom!
O king, unthought of evils, befall a man from dice!
www.ibiblio.org /sripedia/ebooks/mb/m03/m03013.htm   (460 words)

  
 Online Journal of Indology | Bibliographic Encyclopedia | Authors | Virasena - DU887A - EIPA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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Sangita Virasena vijayamu: Navarasa bharita srngara rasa pradhanambagu nalugankamula natakamu
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 The Questions of King Milinda
And King Milinda asked him: "How is Your Reverence known, and what is your name, sir?"
"As Nagasena I am known, O Great King, and as Nagasena do my fellow religious habitually address me. But although parents give name such as Nagasena, or Surasena, or Virasena, or Sihasena, nevertheless, this word "Nagasena" is just a denomination, a designation, a conceptual term, a current appellation, a mere name.
For no real person can here be apprehended."
web.singnet.com.sg /~rjp31831/nagasena.htm   (5114 words)

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