Previous Year Question

1. Nettipakarana — Not a Jaina text. It belongs to the Buddhist Pali tradition. The electronic primary text preserved by Göttingen University's GRETIL is based on the Sri Lanka Tripitaka Project. The text itself begins with the Buddhist homage “Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammā sambuddhassa” and proceeds to discuss the Buddha's sāsana. Its Buddhist affiliation is therefore evident from the text itself.

2. Parishishtaparvan — A Jaina text. It was written by the Jaina scholar Hemachandra. UGC's INFLIBNET e-PG Pathshala explicitly identifies Parisishtaparvan as a Jain work of Hemachandra and treats it as an important literary source for traditions concerning Chandragupta and the Mauryan period.

3. Avadanashataka — Not a Jaina text; it is Buddhist. GRETIL preserves its Sanskrit text, based on the critical editions of P. L. Vaidya and J. S. Speyer. Its opening passages explicitly refer to the Buddho Bhagavān, the Bhikṣusaṅgha, Rajagriha and Veṇuvana, firmly establishing its Buddhist textual setting.

4. Trishashtilakshana Mahapurana — A Jaina text. The work is also known as the Triṣaṣṭi-lakṣaṇa-mahāpurāṇa-saṃgraha or Mahapurana. The digitised Bharatiya Jnanpith edition identifies it as the celebrated Sanskrit work of Jinasena and Gunabhadra, narrating the lives of the Tirthankaras and other Śalākāpuruṣas according to the Jaina tradition.

IGNCA material independently refers to Jinasena's Mahapurana in the context of Jaina texts and the Jaina Tirthankara tradition.

Therefore:

Nettipakarana → Buddhist
Parishishtaparvan → Jaina
Avadanashataka → Buddhist
Trishashtilakshana Mahapurana → Jaina