Adipurana

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Adipurana is a 10th-century Kannada Jain epic poem by the poet Pampa that narrates the life and virtues of the first Tirthankara, Rishabhanatha.

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Adipurana canonical 3
Ādipurāṇa 2

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instanceOf Jain religious text
Kannada epic poem
medieval Indian literature
alsoKnownAs Adipurana
surface form: Ādipurāṇa
associatedWith Digambara Jains
surface form: Digambara Jain tradition
author Pampa
basedOn Jain Puranic tradition
belongsTo Pampa’s trilogy of Kannada classics
centralFigure Rishabhanatha
century 10th century
composedBy Adikavi Pampa
culturalSignificance important to Jain communities of Karnataka
depicts Jain cosmology
Jain ethical ideals
features didactic narratives
heroic description of Tirthankaras
religious exhortation
focusesOn virtues of Rishabhanatha
genre epic poetry
influenced later Kannada Jain poets
inspired later Adipurana retellings in other languages
language Kannada
literaryImportance landmark of Jain Kannada poetry
major classic of Kannada literature
literaryTradition Old Kannada literature
meter champu style
narratesLifeOf Rishabhanatha
originallyComposedIn Kannada
surface form: Old Kannada
patron Chalukya king Arikesari II
portrays ideal Jain king
path of asceticism
preservedIn Jain matha libraries
region Karnataka
relatedWork Vikramarjuna Vijaya
religion Jainism
script Kannada script
structure mixture of prose and verse
studiedIn Kannada literary studies
subject life of the first Tirthankara
theme non-violence
renunciation
spiritual liberation (moksha)
timeOfComposition circa 941 CE
usedIn Jain religious discourse

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Pampa notableWork Adipurana
Jain literature majorText Adipurana
Adikavi Pampa notableWork Adipurana
this entity surface form: Ādipurāṇa
Adipurana alsoKnownAs Adipurana
this entity surface form: Ādipurāṇa
Rashtrakuta court producedWork Adipurana