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jinasena

jinasena -lrb- जिनसेन -rrb- was one of the several famous jain acharyas of the digambar tradition .
he authored jain texts like `` harivamsha purana '' -lrb- 783 ad -rrb- and mahapurana -lrb- 9th century -rrb- .
he was the disciple of virasena and he completed his teacher 's famous commentary `` dhavala '' on kashayaprabhrita .
mahapurana includes Ādi purāṇa and uttarapurana , the project was completed by his pupil gunabhadra .
mahapurana is the source of the famous quote : some foolish men declare that creator made the world .
the doctrine that the world was created is ill-advised , and should be rejected .
if god created the world , where was he before creation ?
if you say he was transcendent then , and needed no support , where is he now ?
no single being had the skill to make the world - for how can an immaterial god create that which is material ?
how could god have made the world without any raw material ?
if you say he made this first , and then the world , you are face with an endless regression .
if you declare that the raw material arose naturally you fall into another fallacy , for the whole universe might thus have been its own creator , and have risen equally naturally .
if god created the world by an act of will , without any raw material , then it is just his will made nothing else and who will believe this silly stuff ?
if he is ever perfect , and complete , how could the will to create have arisen in him ?
if , on the other hand , he is not perfect , he could no more create the universe than a potter could .
if he is formless , actionless , and all-embracing , how could he have created the world ?
such a soul , devoid of all modality , would have no desire to create anything .
if you say that he created to no purpose , because it was his nature to do so then god is pointless .
if he created in some kind of sport , it was the sport of a foolish child , leading to trouble .
if he created out of love for living things and need of them he made the world ; why did he not make creation wholly blissful , free from misfortune ?
thus the doctrine that the world was created by god makes no sense at all .
barbara sproul , `` primal myths '' -lrb- san francisco ; harper row , 1979 .
mahapurana was the model for saiva siddhanta periyapuranam which gives biographies of sixty-three individuals .
jinasena belonged to the panchastupanvaya lineage of jain monks .
the spiritual lineage of jinasena continues today and is called senagana .
