Earth's Sacred Texts

Jainism

The Agamas

The original texts based on the teachings of Mahavira, detailing Jain cosmology, philosophy, and the path to spiritual liberation through non-violence (ahimsa). Presents four of the Svetambara canon's roughly 45 Agamas -- the Acaranga Sutra, Kalpa Sutra, Uttaradhyayana Sutra, and Sutrakritanga Sutra -- in Hermann Jacobi's 1884/1895 translations.

Jaina Sutras, Part I (tr. Hermann Jacobi, Sacred Books of the East vol. 22, 1884)

Jaina Sutras, Part II (tr. Hermann Jacobi, Sacred Books of the East vol. 45, 1895)