Chakkammuvaeso

SR No.: 002315
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Madhusudan Modi
Publisher: Oriental Institute
Publication Year: 1972
Total Pages: 448
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 10 MB

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are all benedictory in character. In 1. 16 the author calls
as the clever younger brother ( सघुबंधु) of अमरसूरि i.e. himself, the author of this work — अमरकीर्ति In 1. 19 he again says that the work was composed by him for अंबाप्रसाद ( अंगप्रसादनिमित्तें )
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The stories in Chu. Sandhis : 2 to 9: Their Tradition
The stories in the above Sandhis are popular religious stories and like all other stories of this type they require to be analysed and classified from the viewpoints of common tradition and motifs. Of course, it would be a subject by itself to be studied and worked upon. To be brief and to remain germane to the study of this work itself, I casually intend to touch slightly on the subject of the tradition of these stories.
As previously stated and discussed, the Sandhis 2 to 9 in Chu. contain stories in praise of the merit of each of the eight forms of worship of the Jinaidol. They are :
जलगंधक्खयचरुयहि कुसुमिहि दीवधूवसुफलहि अइगरुयहि पयकमलइ पुज्जर जिणणाहह जो भत्तिए सुइणाणसणाहह ॥
(Chu. I. 13. 10-11)
Chu. is a work in the Digambara tradition. But the stories given are found in the Svetämbara tradition also in Sri-Vijayacand-Kevali-Cariya, a Pkt. work by Śri Candraprabha Mahattara composed in V. S. 1127 in a town called Deyavada at the request of his pupil Viradeva in the temple of Rsabha-deva. It is published by Sri Jaina-Dharma Prasāraka Sabha, Bhavanagar in V. S. 1962. The following are relevant güthis giving the idea of its author and composition at the end of the work:
एयं मंगलनिलयं चरियं सिरिविजयचंदकेवलिणो
जा गयणे गहचक्कं ता मोहं हणउ भवियाणं ॥ १४७॥ सिरि-निव्युयवंस-महाधयस्स सिरि-अमयदेव-सूरिरस सीसेण तस्स रइयं चंदप्पह - महयरेणेयं ॥ १४८ ॥ रइयं वित्थररहिये चरिअं विजयचंदकेवलिणो गाहाछंद निबद्धं भवियाणं विबोहणद्वाए ॥ १४९॥ देयावs - वरनयरे रिसह - जिणिंदस्स मंदिरे रइयं
निय वीरदेव सीसस्स साहुणो तस्स वयणेणं ॥ १५० ॥
मुणि-कम- रुद्दकजुए ( ११२७) काले सिरिविक्कमस्स वहते रइयं फुडक्खरत्थं चंदप्पहमहयरेणेयं ॥ १५१ ॥
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जान जसो ससिधवल धवल महिमंडल जिनिंदा ताव इमें जय जए चरिये सिरिविजयचंदस्स ॥ १५२ ॥