Pancastikayasara
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{{Infobox religious text
| image = Panchastikayasara.pdf
| alt = Pancastikayasara
| caption = Pancastikayasara
| religion = Jainism
| author = Kundakunda
| verses = 180
| period = 1st century B.C.
}}
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Pañcāstikāyasāra ("The Essence of Reality") is an ancient Jain text authored by Acharya Kundakunda.{{sfn|Jaini|1991|p=33}} Kundakunda explains the Jain concepts of dravya (substance) and Ethics. The work serves as a brief version of the Jaina philosophy. There are total 180 verses written in Prakrit language.{{sfn|Chakravarti|2001}} The text is about five (panch) āstikāya, substances that have both characteristics, viz. existence as well as body.
A modern English translation was published by Vijay K. Jain in 2018.{{sfn|Jain|2018}}
Āstikāya
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References
- {{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wnoRAQAAIAAJ|page=16|title=Ācārya Kundakunda's Pañcāstikāya-sāra|last1=Kundakunda|first1=Acharya|last2=Chakravarti|first2=Appaswami|last3=Upādhye|first3=Ādinātha Neminātha|year=2001|publisher=Bharatiya Jnanpith |isbn=978-81-263-1813-1 |ref={{sfnref|Chakravarti|2001}} }}
- {{citation |last=Jaini |first=Padmanabh S. |authorlink=Padmanabh Jaini |title=Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GRA-uoUFz3MC |date=1991 |isbn=0-520-06820-3 |publisher=University of California Press }}
- {{cite book|last=Jain|first=Vijay K.|title=Ācārya Kundakunda's Pańcāstikāya-saṃgraha – With Authentic Explanatory Notes in English (The Jaina Metaphysics)|publisher=Vikalp Printers|publication-place=Dehradun|date=2020|isbn=978-81-932726-5-7}}
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