Saravali Painnayam

SR No.: 001633
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: D S Baya
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan
Publication Year: 2004
Total Pages: 122
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, History, & agam_anykaalin
File Size: 6 MB

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LXVI : SĀRĀVALĪ-PRAKĪRṆAKA
not aware of any particular work of a Digambara monk that particularly eulogises Śatruñjaya tīrtha. In the literature of the Śvetambara origin, however, besides the present Sārāvalī Prakīrṇaka, too, there are many volumes that sing the praise of Śatruñjaya or Pundarīkagiri. Although it is difficult to say anything definitive about the period of this Sārāvalī Prakīrṇaka, it is a foregone conclusion that it enjoys an important place amongst the works of this nature. Moreover, the traditional belief is that Bhadrabahu wrote the Satruñjayakalpa on the basis of 'KalpaPrabhrta' of the Purva (Pre-canons) literature and thereafter Vajrasvāmī and Pādaliptasūri wrote Śatruñjayakalpa. However, today neither are these works available nor is there any historical basis to acknowledge them. Therefore, these cannot be anything more than a myth. However, in the Śatruñjayakalpa of Vividhatīrthakalpa, Jinaprabha has given an indication that he had written this kalpa based on the Śatrunjayakalpas by Bhadrabahu, Vajrasvāmī and Pādaliptasūri. Another Śatruñjayakalpa is by Dharmaghosasūri of the Tapāgaccha, which was written sometime in the first half of the 14th century and yet another one is by Jinaprabhasŭri of the Kharataragaccha, written in 1385 as a part of Kalpapradīpa or Vividhatīrthakalpa. There is a considerable similarity in the subjects-matter of both these works. According to Prof. M.A. Dhākī there must be an interval of about 50 years between them. Besides these, there is another volume available under the title of Laghu Satruñjaya Kalpa. This work has been published with its English translation
in Śrī Śatruñjaya Girirāja Darśana”. It appears to be a
collection of some of the verses of Sārāvalī Prakīrnaka. It is clearly written at the end of this work that its verses were composed by a Pūrvadhara monk in the Sārāvalī Paiņṇā. It is clear from this that the verses of 'Laghu Śatruñjaya Kalpa' have