Kalpasūtra

C41970
concept

Kalpasūtra is a Jain canonical text, primarily of the Śvetāmbara tradition, that contains biographies of the Tīrthaṅkaras (especially Mahāvīra), rules for monastic conduct, and liturgical guidelines recited during the Paryuṣaṇa festival.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Jain textual tradition 1
Kalpasūtra canonical 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: Kalpasūtra
Generated description
Kalpasūtra is a Jain canonical text, primarily of the Śvetāmbara tradition, that contains biographies of the Tīrthaṅkaras (especially Mahāvīra), rules for monastic conduct, and liturgical guidelines recited during the Paryuṣaṇa festival.

Instances (2)

Instance Via concept surface
Shaunakiya Kalpasūtra (attributed)
surface form: Shaunakiya Kalpasūtra
Kalpasutra commentaries Jain textual tradition