Pravachanasara

SR No.: 003289
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram
Publication Year: 1964
Total Pages: 612
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 16 MB

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name from that place. It is an interesting suggestion and can be accepted as a workable hypothesis for the present (P. B. Desai: Jainism in South
India, Sholapur 1957, pp. 152 ff.) Page 25, paragraph 1, on the word 'Mūlācāra'. See Pt. Jugalkishore's observations
on this work in his Intro. pp. 18f. of his P.J.S. Pt. Paramanand has written an article (Anekānta, II, 3, pp. 221 f.) that Kundakunda should be looked upon as the author of the Mülācāra, but the evidence presented is not conclusive. He shows further (Ibidem pp. 319.) how it has a number of gāthās common with other works. See also Pt. Hiralal's article on this work (Ibidem XII, 11, p. 330ff.). He has further noted (Ibidem pp. 362f.) how the Mülācāra shares some gāthās with the works of Kundakunda. The Samayasārādhikāra of the Mūlācāra (X. 89–90) has a few gāthās common with the Sanmati of Siddhasena (II. 40–53), see the Sanmati Tarka, English, Intro. p. 71, Bombay 1939. Even the name of the author or compilor is still obscure. It is necessary, however, to treat the present chapters of the Mülācāra as independent Prakaranas put together under
one title. In this context see the foot-note No. 3 on p. 31 below. Page 27, paragraph 2, on the word 'Damsaņapāhuda'. Dr. W. Schubring has
written a learned paper 'Kundakunda echt und unecht' in ZDMG, Band 107-Heft 3 (December 1957), pp. 557f. It throws a searching light on the language and contents of some of the Pāhudas; and whether the author of the Pravacanasāra etc. is the same as the author of some of the Pāhudas is an open question. It is an urgent desideratum that these Pāhudas
should be critically edited. Page 28, second paragraph, on 'Cāritta-pāhuda': There is a thorough and excellent
study of the entire range of the Srāvakācāra presented by Dr. R. Williams
in his Jaina Yoga, London Oriental Series, Vol. 14, London 1963. Page 38, foot-note No. 1, add after 'Lucknow 1931': Lately there is another
edition of the Niyamasāra with Padmaprabha's comm. and Gujarati Anuvāda by H. J. Shaha, Sri Jaina Svādhyāya Mandira Trust, Sonagadh
1951. Page 39, foot-note from the earlier page, add at the end of it after the word 'com
mentary': My paper on this subject submitted to the Eighth Session of the All-India Oriental Conference, Mysore, is published, in its revised form, in the Journal of the University of Bombay, XI, ii, for 1942, pp. 100f.: Padmaprabha and his commentary on the Niyamasāra'. All the quotations are listed and an attempt was made to put broad limits to his age which was assigned to 'the last quarter of the 12th century and the first quarter of the 13th century A.D.'. With more specific evidence, namely, the epigraph from Pataśīvaram (Dt. Anantapur) which gives so many details about Padmaprabha, it is shown now (P.B. Desai: Jainism in South India and Some Jaina Epigraphs, Sholapur 1957, pp. 159-60) that he
passed away on Monday, February 24, A.D. 1185. Page 47, foot-note 4, add at the end of it: This promised English translation of
the Prayacanasära and its Sanskrit commentary by Amftacandra by