Studies in Jain Literature

SR No.: 001868
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: V M Kulkarni
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 114
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Literature, & Story
File Size: 14 MB

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196 STUDIES IN JAIN LITERATURE P. 52 P. (Hemacandra and Rucaka : Note : Only a few identical passages are indicated below to prove Hemacandra's indebtedness to Rucaka or Ruyyaka) : Hemacandra Rucaka p. 5 (11 1-3) p. 77 (11 11-13, 1 22) p. 31 p. 154 (11 19-23) P. 40 P. 155 (1 12) P. 8 P. 178 (1 18) P. 225 (11 27-28) P. 74 P. 231 (11 6-8, 11 16-18) P. 238 (11 22-25) P. 47 P. 274 (1 7) 275 (1 8) PP. 204-205 P. 376 (11 9-11) P. 70 P. 388 (1 20) p. 69 p. 389 (11 2-6) p. 63 It is rarely that Hemacandra mentions his sources by name;1 but on many occasions when he happens to adopt even very long passages in either prose or verse from his predecessors' works he does not care to indicate their sources?. A few long passages in the Viveka?, although not found in any of the source-books mentioned above, do not appear, by virtue of their language and style, to be Hemacandra's. In many places we come across the expression Vayam tu brumah" or similar oness, which lead us to believe that the views prefaced with these expressions are Hemacandra's own, but the fact is that in many cases at least, Hemacandra only repeats his masters' views faithfully in their own words. There are scores and scores of passages, some of them pretty long, common to Somesvara's Samketa and Hemacandra's KS. R. C. Parikh holds that Hemacandra borrows these passages from Somesvara. I have shown in my paper published in the Bulletin of the Chunilal Gandhi Vidyabhavan, Surat (1961-62) that probably the borrowing is the other way?. In view of the uncertainty of the mutual relation between Hemacandra and Somesvara it will only be right to leave out Somesvara's Samketa while considering the present problem. Parikh and Dhruva consider Hemacandra's Ks to be unique in that it brings for the first time, Poetics and Dramatics within the compass of a single work. The work of Hemacandra, however, is not the first of its kind.