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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KĀRTTIKEYANUPREKŞA
Sakalakirti': This Sakalakirti, the pupil of Padmanandi, is credited with starting the Idara branch of the Balatkāra-gana. He was initiated in the order of monks at the age of 25; and he moved about as a Digambara monk for about 22 years. A number of images and temples were consecrated by him, especially in North Gujarat, for which the available dates range from A. D. 1433 to 1442. He is a voluminous writer with a large number of works to his credit some of which are: Prasnottaropāsakācāra, Pārsvapurāna, Sukumäla-svämi-caritra or Sukumāra-caritra, Mülācāra-pradipa, Sripālacaritra, Yasodhara-caritra, Tattvārthasāra dīpaka. He is described as purāna-mukhyottama-sõstrakāri and mahākavitvādi-kalā-pravīnah. Subhacandra speaks about him in his Pāndava-purāņa thus :
कीर्तिः कृता येन च मर्त्यलोके शास्त्रार्थकी सकला पवित्रा। Bhuvanakirti : Sakalakirti was succeeded by Bhuvanakirti (Sam. 1508-1527 ) who is the author of a few Rāsas and who instructed the consecration of an image in A. D. 1470.
Jñānabhūşaņa' : Bhuvanakīrti's successor is Jñānabhūşaņa who consecrated images from Sam. 1534 to 1552, i, e., A. D. 1477 to 1495. Though the Bhattāraka seat was in the North and he belonged to Gujarat, he travelled widely, according to the Pattāvali, on pilgrimage in different parts of India, and was honoured by Indrabhūpāla, Devarāya, Mudiliyāra, Rāmanātharāya, Bommarasarāya, Kalaparāya, Pāņdurāya etc. who seem to have been prominent Srāvakas and local chiefs from the South. He is the author of Tattvajñāna-tarangini, Siddhāntasārabhāsya (both of these published), Paramārthopadesa, Neminirvana-pañjikā (?), Pañcāstikāya-ţikā (?) and some manuals on ritual.* There have been authors, more than one, bearing the name Jňānabhūşaņa; naturally the Mss. of these works will have to be duly inspected. From two inscriptions on images it is clear that he had vacated the seat of Bhattāraka in favour of Vijayakirti as early as Sam. 1557, i. e., A. D. 1500. His Tattvajñānatarangini was completed in A. D. 1503. A Ms. of the
1) V. P. JOHARAPURKAR: Bhattāraka-sampradāya, Nos.329-42, pp. 153 f.
2 ) BHANDARKAR'S Report 1883-84 ; PETERSON's Report IV; NATHURAM PREMI: Digambara-Jaina-Grantha-kartă aura unake.grantha (Bombay 1911 ) p. 30; Jaina Hitaisī, XII, p. 90; H. D. VELANKAR: Jinaratnakośa pp. 278, 246, 443, 313, 398, 320, 153 ( for these various works). The Miss. of these works deserve to be scrutinised to see whether they are all of this Sakalakirti or some of them of any other author of the same name,
3) NATHURAM PREMI: Siddhäntasärādi-samgraha (Bombay 1922 ) Intro. pp. 8f., also Jaina Sāhitya aura Itihāsa (Bombay 1956, 2nd ed.)pp. 378 f.; PARAMANANDA: Anekānta XIII, p. 119; V. P. JOHARAPURKAR: Bhattāraka Sampradāya Nos. 352-61, p. 154.
4) H.D. VELANKAR: Jinaratnakośa pp. 152, 440; Pt. PREMIJI seems to be aware of some Mss. of Paramärthopadeśa. The J-kośa does not note any, but instead it has Paramärtha. wisati ( of Padmanandi) the Mss. of which deserve to be inspected.