Ravisena

Acharya Ravisena
Image of digambar acharya (head of the monastic order)
Official name	Acharya Ravisena
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Religion	Jainism
Sect	Digambara

Acharya Ravisena was a seventh century Digambara Jain Acharya, who wrote Padmapurana (Jain Ramayana) in Sanskrit in 678 AD. In Padmapurana, he mentions about a ceremony called suttakantha, which means the thread hanging from neck.

Ravishena and his Padmapurana has been mentioned in Kuvalaya-mālā of Udyotana Suri (Vikram 835) and Jinasena in his Harivansha Purana (Vikram 840).

Padmapurana is said to follow Paumachariya, although it sometimes departs from it. In the Jain tradition, Rama is a Balabhadra, who is non-violent. According to Padma Purana, Ravana was killed by Lakshmana. After having rules for many years, Rama, became a muni and eventually attained nirvana.

References

• Caillat, Colette; Balbir, Nalini (1 January 2008), Jaina Studies, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-81-208-3247-3
• Das, Sisir Kumar (2005), A History of Indian Literature, 500-1399: From the Courtly to the Popular, Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-260-2171-0
• Dundas, Paul (2002), The Jains (2nd ed.), Psychology Press, ISBN 978-0-415-26605-5
• Daulatram, Pandit, Acharya Ravisena's Padma Purana (in Hindi)
• Singh, Ram Bhushan Prasad (2008) [1975], Jainism in Early Medieval Karnataka, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-81-208-3323-4

Further reading

• Raviṣeṇa. Padmapurāṇa, ed. P. Jain, 3 vols, Kashi, 1958–9.

External links

• Media related to Ravisena at Wikimedia Commons