Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrashastra

SR No.: 006540
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, K V Abhayankar
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab
Publication Year: 1944
Total Pages: 635
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English & Culture
File Size: 18 MB

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SUBSEQUENT MANTRIKAS: MUNISUNDARASURI
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and a commentary on Saptati-Bhāşya, works relating to Karma philosophy. He also wrote Bhāvakarmaprakriya, Satapadikāsāroddhāra, Laghu Satapadi, Dharmopadeśa, Sri Kankālaya-Rasādhyāya, Susrāddha -Kathā and commentaries on Upadesamālā and the hymn Namutthunam'. The most important for our purpose is however his work 'Sūrimantra -Kalpasāroddhāra.' He also wrote a 'Padmăvati-Kalpa'. That he was an accomplished Māntrika * is proved by his achievements narrated in Ancala-Gaccha Pattāvali viz. by composing the hymn of Sri Jīrikāpallī Pārsvanātha beginning with the words 'Om namo devadevāya etc.' in Lolād village near Sankheśvara-Tirtha he warded off the threatened calamity and also caused the army of Sultan Mahomed to turn back from the said village by invocation of Sri Pārsvanātha. Through the same hymn he cured the son of the Mayor of Vadanagar (a nāgara ty caste) who was bitten by a snake. Consequently 300 Nāgara families accepted the Jain faith. The said hymn is published in Stotrasandoha part II at p. 48. The Mantra of Sri Pārsvanātha incorporated therein is known as 'Tribhuvana-vijaya-patākā' i. e. 'The triumphal flag of the conquest of the three world.'
SRI MUNISUNDARASURI Amongst Māntrikas Sri Munisundarasūri is famous as the author of the Māntric hymn 'Santikaram', which is one of the Smaraņas i. e. hymns meant for daily recital. The said hymn was composed by Sri Munisundarasūri to ward off the epidemic caused by Yoginis (powerful female deities) at Delwadā. He performed Sadhana of the Sūrimantra, it is said, twenty-four times and became a great Mantrasiddha. That he was a great Upāsaka of Sūrimantra is clear
* He refers to his own experience thus in the hymn referred to further on.
"यथा नादमयो योगी तथा चेत् तन्मयो भवेत् ।
तदा न दुष्करं किञ्चित् कथ्यतेऽनुभवादिदम् ॥१०॥ $ The hymn also discloses his proficiency in practical Yoga, see also v.5 of the same hymp;
पूजाकोटि समं स्तोत्रं स्तोत्रकोटिसमो जपः।। जपकोटिसमं ध्यानं ध्यानकोटिसमो लयः ।। प्रबन्धकोश, रत्नश्रावकप्रबन्धः, श्लोक ३, पृ.४