Outline of Avasyaka Literature

SR No.: 006911
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ernst Leumann, George Baumann
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2010
Total Pages: 256
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

Page 192

E. Leumann, An outline of the Avaśyaka Literature
sakalaśrīsiddhāntena suśrāvaka-sam Mandaṇena putra-sam°Ṣīmaraj'ādi-sakalakuṭambaparivara-parivṛttena śrīViseṣāvaśyaka-sūtram lekhitam.
[34] Finally, still a third hand inserts the following āryā:
ŚrīmatTapagana-gaganângana-gaganamani-prabhaiḥ svapunyârtham Vijayananda-munindraiś citkose 'sau pratir mumuce ||
Thus, s belonged originally to a complete collection of copies of canonical texts and commentaries that some unknown Mandaṇa has had made. Some collections of a similar type are represented in Europe by specimens; the final remark of B 1038, printed by Weber in the Cat. II p. 638 (and mentioned again p. 1248,27), reports about one such case; B 1722 belongs to another (a manuscript of Abhayadeva's Aupapātikacommentary)".
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s was written in the citkosa (i.e. in the library) of the Śrīmandapa-durga, from where the manuscript, according to the concluding metrical indication, later (around 1600 A.D.) came into another citkosa (i.e. most likely, into that of a separate branch) by means of Vijayananda who had founded a particular branch within the Tapāgaccha.
How Hemacandra has divided and shortened the original can be seen in the following concordance:
Original division
pedhabandha
uvagghāya
Av.-niry. I 1-79 Anuyogadvāra
Āv.-niry. II 1-66
II 67-V 27
VI
1-17
18-64
65-82
83-88
1-40
41-47. 49. 48
50 f.
52 f.
54-94
95-146
147-165
166-182
183-198
66
66
66
66
CC
CC
56
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
"L
66
66
66
66
VIII
66
66
66
66
66
66
"L
IX
66
66
66
1-18 23-30
32
66
66
33-36 37-41
Original recension
1-836a 836-1012
1013-1548
1549-1987
1988-2007
2008-2483 II 1-476 2484-2501 III 1-18 2502-2516
19-33
2517-2761
34-278
2762-2770
2771-2773
279-281
Hemacandra's recension
2774 f. 2776-3096 3097-3247 IV
3248-3275
3276-3314
3315-3331
3332a
3492-3508
3509-3556
3557-3562
I 1-1548
3332-3336 3337-3491 V
3563 3564-3567 3568-3587
cp. jñānakośa with Dharmasagara Weber's Cat. II 1009,24
92
282-602 1-151
152-190
191a
191-195
1-155
156-203
204
205-224
459
9
2
28
17
17
6
2 A mistake for ovrtena sanctioned by Halay. IV 27.
The colophon says here: śrīStambhatīrtha-västavya-śrīŚrīmālījñātīya-vṛddhaśākhiya-do°Lahvaya tadbhāryaBaï-Campãi, tayoḥ putrāḥ do Sumatidāsa do°Kīkā do° Keśava, do°Sumatidāsa-bhārya Sobhāgade tayoḥ putra-doSījaya-karaṇena svabandhu-do°Kanaji-pramukha-kuṭamba-yutena sva-citkośa-vrddhy-artham sva-śreyase 45 pancālīśa-agama-sūtra-vṛtti-pustakam likhāpitam, tan-madhye prathamôpanga-vṛttir iyam. - Manuscript P VIII 682, written samvat 1790, belongs to a Digambara institution of a similar type.
A smaller collection (of 10+ 2 volumes) is in a Svetâmbara institution set up between 1100 and 1130. A.D. whose book titles have been listed in the colophon of the manuscript A V 36 (that forms the concluding volume).
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