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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5) The basic Sūtras of the Satkhandāgama on which Virasena (C, A, D. 816) has written the Dhavală commentary using, if not i ting, earlier Prākrit commentaries, are a relic of the Pūrvas; and in one Sūtra, while explaining the Śrutajñāna-upayoga, the following eight types are mentioned thus ::
जा तत्थ वायणा वा पुच्छणा वा पडिच्छणा वा परियदृणा वा अणुमक्खणा वा थय थुदि-धम्मकहा वा जे चामण्णे एवमादिया । The commentary gives a detailed interpretation of all these, among which Anuprekķā is thus explained:
i) कम्मणिजरणटमटिमजाणुगयस्स सुदणाणस्स परिमलणमणुपेक्खणा णाम । ii) सांगीभूदकदीए कम्मणिजरट्ठमणुसरणमणुवेक्खा ।
6) It would be relevant to record here some negative evidence also. The Uttarādhyayana-sūtra, Chapter xxi, Caranavihi, enumerates topics arranged in units of one, two, three, etc. Under the group of twelve there is no mention of Anuprekşā (verse 11). In similar enumerations in the Samavāyanga’ and Āvassayasutta, the list of twelve Anuprekşās is not mentioned. Secondly, in the Panhāvāgaraņāin the five Samvaradvāras are mentioned; but they do not, as in the Tattvärtha-sūtra, include Anuprekşa; and what are mentioned there as Bhāvanās, like those in the Ayāromga, are quite different from Anupreksā for which later on the term Bbāvanā came to be used.
7) The Mahānisiha-sutta enumerates Bhāvanās in this manner:
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1) HIRALAL JAIN: Satkhandāgama, IV. 1, vol. 9, pp. 262-63 ( Amraoti 1949). 2) Suttāgame (Gurgaon 1953), vol, 1, pp. 325-6. 3) Suttāgame (Gurgaon 1954), vol. 2, p. 1168.
4) A. C. SEN: A Critical Introduction to the Panhāvägaranāim, the tenth Anga of the Jaina Canon (Wurzburg 1936 ), pp. 7, 19 etc.
5) W. SCHUBRING : Das Mahānisīha-sutta (Berlin 1918) p. 66. This work is later than Pinda- and Oha-nijjutti, but in reality can scarcely be attributed to tbe canon with correct ness. Both language and subject matter, e. g., the occurence of Tantrio sayings, the mention of non-canonical writings, etc., seem to indicate a late origin of this work.' M, WINTERNITZ: A History of Indian Literature, vol. II, p. 405.
6) Compare Praśama-rati-prakarana, No. 161: HSH FR Filford Rafinu: 99 रतास्ते संसारसागरं लीलयोत्तीर्णाः ।।