Niryavaliyasuyakhandha Commentary

SR No.: 007576
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Srichandra, Royce Wiles
Publisher: Royce Wiles
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 332
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, & Canon
File Size: 6 MB

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Title: Upāsakadaśaḥ (Skt).
Contents: "[T]he ten (chapters on the duties) of the lay adherent' ... contains narratives for the most part. Legends are told of ten pious householders, most of whom are wealthy merchants, who impose on themselves certain forms of self-denial, take the vows enumerated by Mahāvīra, and become pious lay adherents. By dint of their asceticism they actually attain to miraculous powers while they are still lay adherents: finally they die a voluntary death by starvation as genuine Jaina saints, and are reborn as gods in the heaven of the pious. ... ten stories of this kind are included in one and the same frame, being told by the venerable Suhamma to Jambu. The legends are all told after a stereotyped pattern,,, so much so that in the later stories there is often only a catchword given by way of allusion to the earlier stories... the whole work was only compiled for devotional purposes" (Winternitz 1933:2, 449). References: JRK 55-56; JSBI 1, 227-30; BORI Cat. 17:1, 126-33; Schubring 1935 $46.7.
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1.7 UVASAGADASÃO (Uvas.)
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Abhayadeva Sūri wrote a collective cty on Uvas.-Antag.-Anuttaro., very likely composed in samvat 1127 [1070], this is stated at the end of the Anuttaro. cty. (Hoernle, Uvas. 1880-90:2, xxi).
Printed. Uvās. 1876; 1880-90; 1920ab; 1935; 1946. Translated into Gujarātī Uvās. 1935.
Cūrni, before samvat 1186 [1129] (JRK 56).
Vivekahamsa, Stabaka, one MS. dated samvat 1610 [1553] (JRK 56). Harşavallabha Upadhyaya, Stabaka, samvat 1693 [1636] (JRK 56).
Vrtti, (JRK 56).
Editions: 1
1876 *Upāsakadāśasūtra: saptama anga / Gaṇadharasudharmāsvāmīkṛtamūla sūtra tadupari Śrīmadabhayadevācāryya Sūrīkṛtaṭīkā; Śrī Bhagavan Vijayaksta [Gujarātī] bhāṣā samsodhīta. Calcutta: s.n., 1933 [1876]. [3], 4, 233 p.; 11 x 25 cm. (Śrīyuta Raya Dhanapatisimha Bahadura kā Āgamasangraha ; 7). [Emeneau 3924; CLIO 4, 2818; Univ. of Chicago Library catalogue]
1880-90 *The Uvasagadasão, or, The religious profession of an Uvasaga, expounded in ten lectures, being the Seventh Anga of the Jains, edited in the original Prakrit with the Sanskrit commentary of Abhayadeva [and English translation]/ by A. F. Rudolf Hoernle... 2 v. ; [text] xxiii, 251, 76 p. ; [translation] xiv, 171, 92 p. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1890, 1880. 22 cm. (Bibliotheca Indica work 105). [Emeneau 3925].
[LD 11611 (v.1)] Another copy listed with a different title-page, dated 1885, with a different 'preliminary' introduction, lacking p. 169-251. v. 1 xi, 168, 76 p. v. 2 as above. [CLIO 4, 2818].
The BORI has the following incomplete (brittle) copy:
1890 Upāsakadaśā-sūtram : Jainamatagamasangraha saptamangam / Śrīmadabhayadevācāryasūrikṛtavivaraṇasahitam; Śrīlaśrī ... E.-Apha-Rudolpha-Harple sahibena pariśodhitam prathamā bhāgaḥ [?], mulam vivaranam ca. samvat 1890 I. (various pagings); 22 cm.
Contents: Anukramaņikā. Introduction. ix-xxiii.-Akārādivarṇakrameṇa śabdasūcī. 169– 245.-Additional critical note 247-50.-Suddhipatram 251. [Text, printed in red and black] 29-30, 39-40, 49-50, 55-56, 59-66, 75-76, 83-[84], 139-40, 147-48, 151-58, 165-68,
1 There is also an edition *Upāsakadaśānga/sampādaka Jīvarāja [Ghe]lā Bhāī Dośī. Ahamadābāda (Koṭhārī 1988 p.24 item 10) but I have not been able to establish a date of publication, although judging by other editions by that editor it is probably between 1900 and 1920.