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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Pravacanasara
B. Faddegon is edited with an Introduction by F.W. Thomas and published as Vol. I, Jaina Literature Society Series, Cambridge 1935. The learned Editor has discussed some important points in the Intro. which deserve special attention, such as the relative ages of Kundakunda and Umāsvāti, ancient character of the works of Kundakunda in the light of his terminology and references, some techinical usages of Kundakunda etc. An edition of the Pravacanasara, Text, Amṛtacandra's comm. and Gujarati Translation is brought by H.J. Shaha, Songadh 1948; and there is a Hindi counterpart of this edition by Pt. Parameshthidas, Maroth 1950. A metrical version of the Pravacanasära in Hindi by Vṛndāvana (see p. 106, footnote 3, below) was already published by the Jaina Hitaishi Karyalaya, Bombay 1908. Lately, a Gujarati Padyānuvada has appeared, Songadh 1950. A Marathi Padyanuvada by Shri M.H. Gandhi is published in the Arya Kundakunda, Osmanabad 1952. By the bye, in 1915, an edition. of the Pravacanasara by the late T.K. Laddu was announced in the S.B.J. (see the list of proposed publications in the Paramatma-prakasa, Arrah 1915); possibly due to the sad demise of the editor no such edition could be brought forth.
Page 47, at the close of the first paragraph, on the word 'Jainism': Pt. Sukhalalaji (Sanmati-prakaraṇa, Hindi, pp. 40ff. Ahmedabad 1963) has instituted a comparison between the works of Kundakunda and the Sanmatiprakarana of Siddhasena. He has detected between them common expressions, similarity of style, parallel contents and some improvementsdeviations here and there. It is necessary that this study has to be extended to the Stutis as well. If one treats the entire early Jaina literature as one unit of study and is guided only by the available evidence, the irresistable conclusion is that Siddhaseną took the clue of the Yugapad-vada (see the foot-notes 1 and 2 on pp. 39 and 76-7 below) from Kundakunda and consequently the make-up of his Sanmatiprakarana is much influenced by that of the Pravacanasara of Kundakunda. Possibly to sidetrack this conclusion, Pt. Sukhalalaji, if I understand him right, is postulating the currency of the Yugapad-vāda to some extent even in early Svetambara literature (Ibidem pp. 54 ff.)
Page 48, paragraph No. 2: In the Review, noted above, Pt. Jugalkishore raises
the question of the gathas found common between the Pravacanasara and the Tiloyapanṇatti of Yativṛṣabha. See his article on this topic in the Anekanta, Vol. II, No. 1, pp. 3 f., Delhi 1939, also his further discussion in his Intro. to the P.J.S., pp. 27f. This subject is discussed in the Intro., in English and Hindi, to the Tiloyapanṇatti, part II, Sholapur 1951. Page 51, first paragraph, line 10, on the word 'Haribhadra': Both these verses, as quoted by Haribhadra, are found in the Savayapannatti attributed to Umāsvāti (Bombay 1905) but possibly composed by Haribhadra himself, see verse Nos. 223-4, p. 122.
Page 52, first foot-note continued from the earlier page: On this conjecture see Pt. Jugalkishore's views in his Review noted above.