Kuvalayamala Part 2

SR No.: 002778
Original Sutra Author: Udyotansuri
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 368
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 12 MB

Page 172

PREFACE
To the Edition of the Sanskrit Text
The text of the Kuvalayamālā-katha of Ratnaprabha-suri is based on the following material:
C-This stands for the printed edition of the Kuvalayamālā-kathā edited by Śrimac Chaturavijayamuni, published by Śrī Jaina Atmānanda Sabha, Bhavanagar, Śri Atmananda Granthamālā, No. 54, and printed at the Nirnayasagar Press, Bombay 1916, Crown pp. 10-250. It is carefully edited; prose and verses are neatly separated and presented; proper nouns are put in black types; and additional punctuation-marks like the comma, dash, sign of interrogation and interjection etc., which are quite helpful in understanding the text, are introduced. Verses are numbered group to group wherever they come. In places where the readings are obviously obscure, fresh ones are proposed in brackets, round or square; and in doing so, the editor claims, the original Prakrit text is consulted in different contexts. The editor would prefer the name Drdhavarma, though the Mss. indiscriminately write Dṛdhavarma or Drdhadharma. He suggests that the opening expressions, 'namaḥ śrī-Hri-devatāyai etc. to Om Arham' belong to Ratnaprabhasūri himself, and that is highly probable.
In preparing this Bhavanagar edition, it is stated that the following three Mss. were used; and now and then important readings from them are noted in the foot-notes. Their readings are also adopted in this edition, and they are indicated as below, their description being taken over from the Preface of C, p. 9.
Ck: It belongs to Paṁnyāsa Śrīmat Siddhivijaya; it contains 29 leaves; and it is written in Samvat 1466 [-57-] 1409 A.D.
Ckh: It belongs to Śrīmat Kantivijaya; it contains 73 leaves; and it is written in Samvat 1961 [-57-] 1904 A.D.
Cg: This was secured through Pamnyasa Śrīmat Anandasagara from the Bhaṇḍāra at Stambhanapuri or Cambay; it contains 42 leaves; and it is written in Samvat 1487 [-57-] 1430 A.D. The concluding passage runs thus:
एवं श्लोक ३८९४ परं मया किमपि किमपि स्तोकं कुत्रचिद्वर्णनादिकं मुक्तमस्तीति ज्ञेयं सर्वैः । संवत् १४८७ वर्षे भाद्रपदमासे कृष्णपक्षे एकादश्यां तिथी बुधवारे मालवकदेशेऽद्येह श्रीगोरीखानराज्ये सी - उराग्रामे पूज्य-प्रभुभट्टारकपुरन्दरसोमसुन्दरसूरिस्स्तच्छिष्यपण्डित हर्ष मूर्तिगणियोग्यवाचनार्थं कुवलयमालाचरित्रं श्राद्धपद्येन लिखितमिदम् ।
It is clear that this shows abridgement in descriptions here and there.
P-This is a paper Ms., so kindly lent to me by Muni Śrī Punyavijayaji (camp Ahmedabad). It is well preserved: only in some corners and in the middle of some folios, it is bored by white ants. It measures