Harisena (Jain monk)

Harisena
Religion	Jainism
Sect	Digambara
Personal
Born	10th century CE
Religious career
Works	Brhatkathakosha

Harisena was a tenth century Digambara Jain monk. His origin is traced to those monks who had stayed in the north during the supposed famine and had been prevailed upon by their lay followers to cover their private parts with a strip of cloth (ardhaphalaka) while begging for alms.^[1]

He wrote Brhatkathakosha.^[2]

Notes

1. Dundas 2002, p. 48.
2. Jaini 1991, p. 43.

References

• Dundas, Paul (2002) [1992], The Jains (Second ed.), Routledge, ISBN 0-415-26605-X
• Jaini, Padmanabh S. (1991), Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women, University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-06820-3