The Uvasaggaharam Stotra is a five verse Prakrit hymn in praise of Parshvanatha, the twenty third Tirthankara, attributed to the monk Bhadrabahu and traditionally held to remove obstacles and misfortune from a devotee's life. It is one of the Navsmaran, the nine sacred hymns recited daily by followers of the Svetambara Murtipujaka sub-sect, and tradition holds that the surviving five verses are a reduction from a longer original whose missing verses were suppressed because their recitation was said to invoke minor deities.
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Who Performs ItAll adherents of the tradition 1 Solitary or CommunalPerformed alone or together 1 Origins
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What It Is Used ForProtection against harm 1 Form
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This source names Svetambara directly: "recited daily by followers of the Svetambara Murtipujaka sub-sect, and tradition holds that the surviving five verses are a reduction from a longer original whose missing verses were suppressed..."
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Its own text: "a five verse Prakrit hymn in praise of Parshvanatha".
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1. The Jains
Paul Dundas, Routledge, 2002on the Navsmaran and Svetambara devotional hymnsView the Source The Jaina Path of Purification
Padmanabh S. Jaini, University of California Press, 1979on Parshvanatha devotional literatureView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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