Facets of Jaina Religiousness in Comparative Light

SR No.: 001532
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L M Joshi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1981
Total Pages: 88
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, Religion, & 12 Anuprekshas
File Size: 6 MB

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THEMES OF SOTERIOLOGICAL REFLECTION (1) One of the texts to give a list of these themes is Tattvārthasūtra of Umāsvāmi or Umāsvāti also called Grdhrapiccha. He lists them in the following order : (i) anitya, (ii) aśaraņa, (iii) samsāra, (iv) ekatva, (v) anyatva, (vi) aśuci, (vii) asrava, (viii) samvara, (ix) nirjarā, (x) loka, (xi) bodhidurlabha, and (vii) dharmasrakhyāta. (2) The Yogaśāstra of Hemacandra has the following order : (i) anitya, (ii) aśarana, (iii) bhava, (iv) ekatra, (v) anyatva, (vi) aśauca, (vii) asravavidhi, (viii) samvara, (ix) karmanir jarā, (x) dharmasvākhyāta, (xi) loka, and (xii) bodhi.5 (3) The Praśamaratiprakaraṇa, attributed to Umāsvāti, gives the following order : (i) anit yatva, (ii) aśaranatva, (iii) ekatva, (iv) anyatva (v) aśucitva, (vi) samsāra, (vii) karmäsravavidhi, (viii) samvaravidhi, (ix) nirjaraņa, (x) lokavistāra, (xi) dharmasvākhyāta-tattvacintā, and (xii) bodhisudurlabhatva.
The Kārttikeyānuprekşā follows the order of enumeration of twelve themes found in the Tattrarthasūtra, while the order in the Yogaśāstra is in agreement with that found in the Jñānārņava of Subhacandra.? (4) Kundakunda, Vattakera, and Śivārya10 give a different order which is as follows: (i) adhruva, (ii) aśarana, (iii) ekatva, (iv) anyatva (v) samsāra, (vi) loka, (vii) aśuci, (viii) ăsrava, (ix) samvara, (x) nirjarā, (xi) dharma, and (xii) bodhi. (5) The list of twelve themes in the Maraṇasamāhill has the following order : (i) aņiccabhāva, (ii) asaranayā, (iii) egayā, (iv) annatta, (v) samsāra, (vi) asubhayā, (vii) logassabhāva, (viii) āsava, (ix) samvara, (x) nijjaraña, (xi) uttamaguna and (xii) bodhidullahayā. (6) The Mahānisihasutta12 enumerates them in the following order :
4. Tattvārthasūtra, IX. 7. 5. Yogaśāstra. IV 55-56. 6. Prašamaratiprakarana, verses 149-150. It would appear from the difference in the order of
enumeration of anuprekşās in the Tattvarthasūtra and the Praśamaratiprakarana that these two
works may not have been written by one and the same person named Umäsväti. 7. Jnanarnava, chapter II, vv. 8ff. 8. Barasa-Anuvekkha (in the Șat-Prabhrtadisamgraha), p. 425 after A.N. Upadhye, op. cit., p. 10. 9. Mülācāra, VIII. 2. 10. Bhagavati Mülaradhana, verse 1710. 11. Maranasamāhi (in Prakirnaka-daśakām), pp. 135ff. after A.N. Upadhye, op. cit., p. 14. 12. Mahānisi hasurta (Berlin edition), pp. 60. I have not seen this text. I quote from Upadhye, op. cit.,
p. 13 who, however, does not give serial number of each theme and does not seem to differentiate two themes in the line dhammam-suyak khāyam-supannattam titthagarehimtattacinta. Schubring, who has edited this text, notes that in the Mahānisiha list impurity (asucitva) is missing, and new is the titthagarehim tatta-cintabhāvana. The Doctrine of the Jainas, p. 307.