The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (57 page)

1
An occasional title of
Brahma pur
a
.
2
A Jain work in Skt. on the ‘origin’ and past history of the world. It was written by
Jinasena
in S. India, and completed by his disciple Gu
abhadra who also continued the narrative in the
Uttara-
pur
a
, which his own disciple Lokasena finished in
c.
892 CE. These two parts, also called together
Mah
-pur
a
, contain the Jain world history, from its beginnings up to the time of the
Mah
v
ra
, the last
t
rtha
kara
(and historical founder of Jainism). Within the framework of the (mythical) adventures of the sixty-three
al
k
-puru
as