Jainpedia's own entry on Devarddhi-gani Kshamashramana, developed by the Institute of Jainology in partnership with the British Library, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Bodleian Library, the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Asiatic Society, documenting his convening of the Valabhi council 980 or 993 years after Mahavira's death, dated 453 or 466 CE, at which the surviving Svetambara Agamas were progressively collected and written down exactly as they were remembered, whether complete or lacunary.
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Jainpedia is a dedicated Jain studies reference built by the Institute of Jainology with major library and museum partners rather than a peer reviewed monograph, tier 1, used here for the council's traditional dating and the specific description of Devarddhi-gani's method of collecting and writing down the surviving Agamas, corroborated by Wikipedia's account below. NotesUsed for the 453 or 466 CE dating, the Valabhi location, and Devarddhi-gani's method of writing down every surviving passage of the Agamas whether complete or lacunary.
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PublisherInstitute of Jainology (Jainpedia)
URLhttps://jainpedia.org/themes/principles/sects/svetambara/devarddhi-gani/
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Bodleian Library directly: "the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Bodleian Library, the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Asiatic Society, documenting his convening of the Valabhi council 980 or 993 years after Mahavira's death..."
This source names Valabhi directly: "documenting his convening of the Valabhi council 980 or 993 years after Mahavira's death, dated 453 or 466 CE, at which the surviving Svetambara Agamas were progressively collected and written down..."
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