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Uvasaggaharam Stotra

Jainism Hymns

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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.

Facts
Practice
Who Performs It
All adherents of the tradition 1
Frequency
Daily 1
Solitary or Communal
Performed alone or together 1
Origins
Language
Prakrit (Ardhamagadhi) 1
Attributed Author / Compiler
Bhadrabahu 1
Use
What It Is Used For
Protection against harm 1
Form
Form of the Text
Hymn 1
Cross-Tradition Connections

Addressed To

Parshvanatha, Figures
Source The JainsPaul Dundas

Associated With

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..."

Source The JainsPaul Dundas

Belongs to Tradition

Jainism, Religions
Source The JainsPaul Dundas

Originates in Language

Prakrit, Languages

Its own text: "a five verse Prakrit hymn in praise of Parshvanatha".

Source The JainsPaul Dundas

Related To

Sources
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
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