Kartikeyanupreksha

SR No.: 002713
Original Sutra Author: Swami Kumar
Author: A N Upadhye, Kailashchandra Shastri
Publisher: Paramshrut Prabhavak Mandal
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 594
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Religion, & Spiritual
File Size: 15 MB

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INTRODUCTION
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3) ANUPREKSA IN JAINA LITERATURE
a) CANONICAL STRATA
It is necessary to record what information is available about Anu. prekşā, not in its general sense' but in its technical perspective, as outlined above, in the earlier strata of Jaina literature, especially the canonical texts. The canon, as it has come down to us, contains. older and later portions; and as yet our studies have not progressed towards chronological stratification of the various texts. Some of the contents may be as old as the second century after the Nirvāņa of Mahavīra, while their final form, mostly as available today, is as late as the fifth century A. D. : the earliest known compilation was made at the Pāțaliputra Council and then, through various vicissitudes, the available texts were collected and written down at the Valabhi Council presided over by Devarddhi. So taking the present texts as they are, an attempt can be made to put together all information about Anuprekşās from the canonical texts, namely, 11 Angas, 12 Upāngas, 10 Prakirņakas, 6 Chedasūtras, 4 Mūlasūtras, and 2 Individual Texts; and also the relics of the Purvas.
1) According to the Thāņaṁga, there are four Dhyānas : atta, rodda, dhamma and sukka. The third, namely, Dharmya is of four kinds; it has four characteristics; it is supported by four props : 1) vāyanā, 2 ) padip cchaņā, 3) pariyataņā and 4) aņuppehā; and lastly it is to be attended by four anuppehās : 1) ega-anuppehā, 2) anicca-a., 3) asarana-A., and 4) sarsära-c. In the like manner, sukladhyāna is also of four kinds, has four characteristics, is supported by four props and is to be attended by four anuppehäs: 1) anamtavattiya-a., 2) viparināma-a. 3) asubha-a., 4) avāya-a. The passage in question stands thus :'
धम्मे झाणे चउब्विहे चउप्पडोयारे पण्णत्ते । तं जहा। आणाविजए, भवायविजए, विवागविजए, संठाण विजए। धस्मस्स णं माणस्स चत्तारि लक्खणा पण्णत्ता । तं जहा । माणारई, णिसग्गरुई, सुत्तरुई, भोगाढरुई। धम्मस्स झाणस्स चत्तारि भालंबणा पण्णत्ता । तं जहा । वायणा, पडिपुच्छणा, परियट्टणा, भणुप्पेहा । धम्मस्स गं शाणस्स चत्तारि अणुप्पेहाओ पण्णत्ता । तं जहा । एगाणुप्पेहा, मणिचाणुप्पेहा, असरणाणुप्पेहा, संसाराणुप्पेहा ।
1) The word is now and then used in its general sense, for instance, Apuogadāra, Sätra 73, Suttāgame (Gurgaon 1954), Vol. II, p. 1092.
2) Suttagame ( Gurgaon 1953), I, p. 224; also Srimat Sthânănga-sūtram with Abhaya deva's Commentary ( Ahmedabad 1937 ), pp. 176-77.