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
Jaina church. The contents of III, *17 have nothing special, though the gath disturbs the context. So, in conclusion, I do not find that there is any strong case against Kundakunda's authorship, as a composer or compiler, of these additional gāthās, excepting one or two gathãs whose position I have detected to be dubious in that context.
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CRITICAL LIGHT ON THE RECENSION OF AMṚTACANDRA.-Now the immediate question that confronts us is as to why Amṛtacandra does not include these gāthās in his commentary. Textual fidality and literal translation are not the aims of his commentary; his commentary is like a bhāṣya where he wants simply to expound with additional touches and in a systematical manner the contents of Pravacanasara. If this is his aim, naturally he would not care [p. 53:] to admit those neutral gathas which do not substantially contribute to the contents of Pravacanasāra. This explains, to a certain extent, his omission of gathas included under the first two groups; but still one desires that he should have retained gathās like II, *1, 43 *2; III, 17 *1-2, 29 *18-20 etc.
Many early Prakrit gāthās have been followed by Amṛtacandra in his works. Some of the gathās, though not included by him in his recension of Pravacanasära, are already known to him, as it is clear from the following comparison with the Sk. verses in his other works:
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Pravacanasara II, 43 *2:
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edāņi panca-davvāņi ujjhiya kalam tu atthikaya tti/ bhannamte käyä puna bahu-ppadesāņa pacayattam || Cp., Tattvarthasara1 III, 4:
vina kalena beşāņi dravyäni Jina-pungavaiḥ pañcāstikāyāḥ kathitaḥ pradeśānām bahutvataḥ || Pravacanasara III, 17 *1-2:
muccha pariggaho cciya ajjhappa-pamāṇado dittho Cp., Puruşarthasiddhyupaya III, 12:
yā mūrcchā nāmeyam vijñātavyaḥ parigraho eṣaḥ | Pravacanasara III, 29 *18-9:
pakkesu a amesu a vipaccamaņāsu mamsa-pesīsu (3 samtattiyam uvavādo taj jādiņam nigodāṇam ||
jo pakkam apakkam vā pesīm maṇsassa khādi phāsadi vā so kila nihanadi pimdam jivāņam aṇega-kodiṇam || Cp., Pururgärthasiddhyupaya 67-8:
āmāsvapi pakväsvapi vipacyamānāsu māmsa-peliu sātatyenotpadas taj jātīnām nigotānām ||
āmām vā pakvām vā khādati yah spṛśati va pilta-pešim sa nihanti satata-nicitam pindam bahu-jiva-kotinām //
Further some of the gathās not admitted by Amṛtacandra are very old ones, for instance: III, 17 *1-2.
1 Ed. SJG, Vol. I.
2 Ed. in SJG, Vol. I; with Hindi translation in RJS, Vira Samvat 2431.
3 I understand that these gathās are found in Sambodhasaptati of Ratnasekharasuri who flourished in the 14th century A. D.