List of Jain texts

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This is a list of important texts written by Jain ascetics and those which are of important value to Jainism.

• Jain Agamas
• Jain literature
• Tattvartha Sutra- 1st Jain text written in Sanskrit language.
• Saman Suttam

Digambara texts

The Ratna Karanda Sravakachara

• Dravyasamgraha
• Ratnakaranda śrāvakācāra
• Puruşārthasiddhyupāya
• Samayasāra
• Satkhandagama
• Ādi purāṇa
• Niyamasara
• Pancastikayasara
• Jnanarnava
• Siribhoovalaya
• Tiloya Panatti

Other texts

• Ajitha purana
• Antakrddaasah
• Anuttaraupapātikadaśāh
• Atma Siddhi
• Aupapatika
• Bahuriband
• Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi
• Drstivada
• Jnatrdharmakathah
• Kalpa Sūtra
• Līlāvatīsāra
• Lokavibhaga
• Mahapurana
• Mulachara
• Nālaṭiyār
• Neelakesi
• Nishitha
• Nivvāṇalīlāvaīkahā
• Prasnavyakaranani
• Purvas
• Samavayanga Sutra
• Acaranga Sutra
• Shantinatha Charitra
• Silappatikaram
• Sthananga Sutra
• Sutrakritanga
• Upasakadasah
• Vaddaradhane
• Valayapathi
• Varangacharita
• Vikramarjuna Vijaya
• Vipakasruta
• Vyākhyāprajñapti

Jain literature Fourteen Purvas (The Prior Knowledge – considered totally lost) Śvētāmbara Canonical Texts Angāgama Acharanga Sutra Sutrakritanga Sthananga Sutra Samavayanga Sutra Vyākhyāprajñapti Jnatrdharmakathah Upasakadasah Antakrddaasah Anuttaraupapātikadaśāh Prasnavyakaranani Vipakasruta Drstivada (now extinct) Upanga āgamas Aupapatika Rājapraśnīya Jīvājīvābhigama Prajñāpana Sūryaprajñapti Jambūdvīpaprajñapti Candraprajñapti Nirayārvalī Kalpāvatamsikāh Puspikāh Puspacūlikāh Vrasnidaśāh Chedasūtra Ācāradaśāh Brhatkalpa Vyavahāra Nishitha Mahāniśītha Jītakalpa Kalpa Sūtra Mūlasūtra Daśavaikālika Uttaradhyayana Āvaśyaka Pindaniryukyti Prakīrnaka sūtra Catuhśarana Āturapratyākhyanā Bhaktaparijñā Samstāraka Tandulavaicarika Candravedhyāka Devendrastava Ganividyā Mahāpratyākhyanā Vīrastava Cūlikasūtra Nandī-sūtra Anuyogadvāra-sūtra Digambara Texts Agamas Satkhandagama Kasayaprabhrta Pratham -ānuyoga Harivamsa Purana Ādi purāṇa Mahapurana Carnānuyoga Mulachara Trivarnācāra Tattvartha Sutra (Note1) Ratnakaranda śrāvakācāra Puruşārthasiddhyupāya Karnánuyoga Gommatsāra Sūryaprajñapti Jayadhavalātikā Tiloya Panatti Dravyānuyoga Niyamasara Pancastikayasara Pravachanasara Samayasāra Aptamimamsa Dravyasamgraha Jnanarnava Commentary Commentary on Tattvartha Sutra and Aptmimamsa Others Siribhoovalaya Jinvani Uvasagharam Stotra Bhaktamara Stotra Tattvartha Sutra is accepted by both Digambara and Śvetāmbara as their texts although Śvetāmbaras do not include it under canonical texts.

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