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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Pravacanasāra
as simply a patch-work and not genuine. The result was that the Digambaras lost almost all texts as a whole. The only alternative before leaders like Kundakunda was to rely on their memories and put together whatever they had traditionally received from their teachers and grand-teachers, not as Anga-works, but merely as sections or pieces from Angas. In this manner Kundakunda might have compiled and composed many small texts. One should not insist too much on the number 84, because we get the names of only a few of them;1 and the number of available works, attributed to Kundakunda, is comparatively small. It must be plainly stated that in majority of the following works, the original texts scarcely mention the name of Kundakunda; at times traditionally they are attributed to Kundakunda, and sometimes the commentators say that Kundakunda is the author; in every case I have taken care to see whether any other author has claimed a particular work as his, and whether there is any conflict in the tradition. In India philosophers and authors always stood for systems; they were never particular in mentioning their names at the end of their works, because they were conscious that whatever they were compiling or composing belonged, so far as the contents were concerned, to earlier teachers. Being simply responsible for the form, they did not like to pose as authors in the modern sense. So in India we have philosophies and not philosophers as in Greece; the authors never hesitated to merge their individualities in a particular stream of philosophical thought; and the individual philosopher, as Max Müller puts it, is but the mouth-piece of tradition.
[p. 26:] Now we will study the various works attributed to Kundakunda. All his works, so far available, are in Prakrit.
SAT-KHANDĀGAMA-TĪKĀ: It is already seen above that Indranandi, in his Srutāvatāra, tells us that Padmanandi of Kundakundapura, possibly the same as our Kundakunda, wrote a commentary, Parikarma by name, on the three sections of Şatkhandāgama. The commentary is not available today. This tradition, moreover, is conflicted by the statement of Vibudha Sridhara, according to whom the author is Kundakirti, the pupil of Kundakunda. So the existence and the authorship of this work belong to the domain of uncertainty of tradition.2
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Besides the works studied in this section, the following are the names of works attributed to Kundakunda; some of the names are partly in Sanskrit and partly in Prakrit, and, at times, differently spelt. There are still many Jaina libraries that have not been thoroughly inspected, and so it is not at all impossible that we might chance upon some of these works; for the sake of easy reference, I give here the names of works attributed to Kundakunda arranged according to English alphabets:-1 Acarapāhuda, 2 Alapapähuda, 3 Amga (sara)-pähuda, 4 Arādhana (sara)-pähuda, 5 Bamdha (sara)-pähuda, 6 Buddhi or Bodhipähuda, 7 Caranapāhuda, 8 Cūlīpāhuda, 9 Curnīpähuda, 10 Divvapāhuda, 11 Dravya(sara)-pähuda, 12 Drotipähuda, 13 Eyamtapāhuda, 14 Jivapähuda, 15 Joni (sara)-pähuda, 16 Karmavipäkapāhuda, 17 Kramapāhuậa, 18 Kriyāsārapāhuda, 19 Ksapana (sara)-pähuda, 20 Labdhi (sāra)-pähuda, 21 Loyapāhuda, 22 Nayapāhuda, 23 Nitāyapåhuda(?), 24 Nokammapähuda, 25 Pancavargapähuda 26 Payaddhapähuda, 27 Payapāhuda, 28 Prakttipāhuda, 29 Pramāņapāhuda, 30 Salamīpāhuda(?), 31 Samthānapāhuda, 32 Samavāyapāhuda, 33 Şațdarsanapāhuda, 34 Siddhāntapāhuda, 35 Sikkhāpāhuda, 36 Stänapähuda, 37 Tattva (sära)-pähuda, 38 Toyapāhuda, 39 Oghatapāhuda, 40 Utpadapāhuda, 41 Vidyāpāhuda, 42 Vastupāhuda, 43 Vihiya or Vihayapāhuda. See the discussion above p. 17.
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