Concept
Yashovijaya
Overview
Yashovijaya (IAST: Yaśovijaya, 1624–1688), a seventeenth-century Jain philosopher-monk, was an Indian philosopher and logician. He was a thinker, prolific writer and commentator who had a strong and lasting influence on Jainism. He was a disciple of Muni Nayavijaya in the lineage of Jain monk Hiravijaya (belonging to the Tapa Gaccha tradition of Śvetāmbara Jains) who influenced the Mughal Emperor Akbar to give up eating meat. He is also known as Yashovijayji with honorifics like Mahopadhyaya or Upadhyaya or Gani.
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As is observed by the historian who first threw the light of reason on Hindoo society,[19] the king, though in dignity, to judge by the written code, he seemed vastly inferior to the Brahmins, had always the full power of a despotic monarch: the reason being that he had the command of the army, and the control of the public revenue. There is no case known to authentic history in which either of these belonged to the…
John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte and Positivism
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He is one of the first Germans who took up his attention with Indian philosophy, yet his work bore little fruit because he himself read no more than the index to the Ramayana. According to the abstract before mentioned, the Indians possess ancient philosophic systems; one part of these they consider to be orthodox, and those which tally with the Vedas are particularly included; the others are held to be heterodox…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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Just as the Buddhists in the north, the Jaïnists, or at least certain of them, have come back to a sort of deism; in the inscriptions of Dekhan there is mention of a _Jinapati_, a sort of supreme Jina, who is called the primary creator; but such language, says the same author, is "in contradiction to the most explicit declarations extracted from their most authorized writings."[54] Moreover, if this indifference for…
Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
States what Yashovijaya is.
Philosophers who discussed Yashovijaya
Related ideas
- Hemachandra
- Carvaka
- Jain philosophy
- Gujarati language
- Jainism
- Akbar
- Indian logic
- Vedanta
- Mughal Empire
- Prakrit
- Haribhadra
- Paul Dundas
- Sanskrit
- Kundakunda
- Anekantavada
- Samkhya
- Indian philosophy
- Śvetāmbara
- Yoga
- Jain monasticism
- Navya-Nyāya
- Buddhists
- Gujarat
- Raghunatha Shiromani
Place in the tradition
Part of Jain philosophy.