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CHAPTER 8
Construction of Temple, Installation of Images and Offering
of Worship as Depicted in Haribhadra's Sodaśaka
N. R. BANERJEE
There are sixteen prakaranas or sections, each of them of sixteen Āryā-verses in this text. They are the miscellaneous topics, such as: (1) Dharma-parīkņā; (2) Deśanā; (3) Dharma-laksana; (4) Dharmecchu-linga; (5) Lokottaratva; (6) Jina-mandira; (7) Jinabimba; (8) Pratisthā-vidhi; (9) Pūjā-svarūpa; (10) Pūjā-phala; (11) Anujñā-linga; (12) Dīksādhikāra; (13) Guru-vinaya; (14) Yoga-bheda; (15) Dhyeya-svarūpa; and (16) Sama-rasa. This paper concerns itself with the chapter on the Jina-mandiraşodaśaka only.
Haribhadra's Sodaśaka is distinguished by two commentaries, known as the Sugamārtha-kalpanā by Ācārya Yaśobhadrasūri (twelfth century AD) and the Yoga-dīpikā by Nyāyācārya Yaśovijaya Upādhyāya (eighteenth century AD), respectively, which help to elucidate the precepts contained in the Āryā-verses. While the former is brief, the latter is more detailed, and sometimes employs similes to explain many an obscure point. Out of the sixteen prakaranas, the three called the Jina-mandira, the Jina-bimba and the Pratisthā-vidhi, are interrelated.
