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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The work is thus older than Chu. by about 150 years. The order of the stories in Chu, is different from that in the above work, where it is as :
वरगंध-धूय-चुक्खक्खएहिं कुसुमेहिं पवरदीवहिं
नेविज-फल-जलेहिं जिणपूआ अट्ठहा होइ ॥ Though the work referred to is claimed to be the work of Svetämbara tradition while Chu. is definitely of the Digambara tradition, the stories appear to be almost common to both the works. The stories in both the works are similar, though there are minor changes here and there in names and form. There are verbal resemblances at several places in both the works. There are two possibilities. Either the author of Chu. has before him this work, previously composed or both the works, Chu. and Vkc., have before them a common work much older. Without entering into the detailed comparison of both the works, to be brief, one can note in passing that at certain places in the stories slight changes in incidents and names are found. Chu, stories are however more embellished with poetic descriptions than the stories of Vkc. They are also more prolix. I have not been able to get hold of a similar Digambara work, which surely must be existing but a scholar who traces such a work, will be further helping the study of this work and its story-tradition.
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The Conclusion I came across this work in 1933 A.D. when the late Prof. K. H. Dhruva showed and gave the ms. of the work to me and after his demise, the ms. passed over to the collection of Gujarat Vidyāsabhā, Ahmedabad. My thanks thus go to the late Prof. K. H. Dhruva and Gujarat Vidyāsabhā for making use of this Ms, as the basis for my work. But as the Dhruva ms. was faulty and incomplete, I would not have undertaken this work, had Acārya Sri Jinavijayaji who has always taken interest in such of my works, not obtained from Āmer-Pustaka Bhandāra, Jaipur two other mss. I have also to acknowledge my deep gratitude and indebtedness to him. I am also indebted to my friend Dr. Bhāyāṇi for suggestions and discussions of many difficult points while the matter was in press. We have also been the co-editors of some ap. works like Nemināha-cariu, Pumasiricariu. Sanatukumāra-cariu etc. And last but not least, I am grateful to Dr. B. J. Sandesara for including this work in the G. O. Series. A work of research, though named under one person, is always a multi-person work.
गच्छतः स्खलनं वापि भवत्येव प्रमादतः । नोपदिष्टो गतेस्त्यागः केनचित्तेन हेतुना ॥ कार्य सर्व सदोषं स्यात्तस्मात्तन्न परित्यजेत् । तद्विद्भिर्दोषसंशोधः सदा सत्कारमर्हति ॥ वैदुष्यं दूषयन्त्येके मार्जन्त्येके च दूषणम् ।
प्रमाणं सद्विवेकः स्यात्तागर्थविनिर्णये ॥ Ahmedabad
M. C. MODI 12-10-1972.
him. I am also be also to acknowled from Amerpie who
Pumasificaris, S.