Agam 15 Upang 04 Pragnapana Sutra Part 02

SR No.: 001064
Original Sutra Author: Shyamacharya
Author: Punyavijay, Dalsukh Malvania, Amrutlal Bhojak
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay
Publication Year: 1971
Total Pages: 934
Language: Prakrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, Metaphysics, & agam_pragyapana
File Size: 16 MB

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(2) Prajñāpanā-trtiyapada-sangrahani
by Ac. Abhayadeva and its avacūrņi
The third chapter of Prajñāpanā contains an account of the relative numerical strength of the classes of living beings. Ac. Abhayadeva (V.S. 1120-) has summarised this whole chapter in 133 verses (gäthäs). He himself calls it a sangraha (compilation, or recapitulatory work). The gātha in point is as follows:
iya aţthānauipayam savvajiyappabahumii payaṁ taiyam pannavaņāe siriabhayadevasūrihim samgahiyam 11
But it is also known by the titles 'Dharmaratnasangrahanı' and Prajñāpanoddhāra.' We can say this because at the end of the work as also of its avacūrni these titles are mentioned. To ascertain the fact one may refer to the two manuscripts of the avacūrni, one belonging to L. D. Collection (no. 3673) and the other to Muni Shri Punyavijay aji's Collection (no. 664). Both these collections are preserved in L. D. Vidyamandir, Ahmedabad.
The avacūrni on the Samgrahani was composed by Kulamandanagani in the year 1441 V. S. This information is contained in the following gathā :
"sridevasundaraguron prasādato'vagatajinavaco'rthalavah kulamandanagaạir alikhad avacūrņim ekābdhibhuvanäbde
Prajñapanā-trtiyapada-sangrahani along with an avacūrni thereon has already been published by Shri Atmananda Jaina Sabha, Bhavanagar, in the year 1974 V.S. This published avacūrni is somewhat more extensive than the one by Kulamandanagani. And in the introduction to this published avacūrni we are told that the name of its author is not known. We feel that some learned person might have made the avacūrni by Kulamandanagani somewhat elaborate for the sake of clarity. And it seems to us that the published avacūrņi is nothing but the enlarged version of Kulamandanagani's avacūrņi.
(3) Vivști by Ac. Malayagiri
Ac. Malayagiri (c. 1188-1260 V. S.) has written a commentary on Prajñāpană. In extense it is four times Ac. Haribhadra's Pradeśa-vyākhyā. And it is the best means to understand the whole of the text of Prajñāpanā. Āc. Malayagiri3 himself declares that
3. For the detailed account of Ac. Malayagiri's life and works one may
refer to the Introduction to his Sabdānuśāsāna (L. D. Series No. 13, 1967).