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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Author: Attributed to Devavacaka.2
Content: Presents the various traditions of epistemological discussion and interpretation. References: Nandi. 1968 Introduction/Dalsukh Malvania; JSBI 303-22; BORI Cat. 17:2, 294; Schubring 1935 $53.
Exegesis:
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5.1 NANDISUTTA (NandI.)'
Jinadāsa, Kṣamāśramaṇa, Cūrṇi (NandiCu.) composed Śaka 598 [676] according to its colophon, 1 500 granthas (JRK 201; JSBI 3, 214-15).
1928 *[Nandi Cūrṇi with Haribhadra's Vṛtti / edited by Sagarānanda Sūri.] Ratalāma : Rṣabhadevaji Keśarīmalaji Śvetāmbara Samsthā, Vikrama samvat 1984 [1928]. [JSBI 2, 304u. 1966b 1 (Prastāvanā); DLJP series list]
Since the editor did not have a good MS source it is printed with many errors but was still used as a comparison for Nandī 1966b (Prastāvanā, 2).
Printed. Nandī.1966a.
Niryukti (JRK 201).
Haribhadra (700-770 CE) said to have used NandiCu. (BORI Cat. 17:2, 300), Vivarana or Laghuvṛtti, 2 336 granthas (JRK 201 which says this Haribhadra was a pupil of Jinabhadra, Muni Punyavijaya however thinks the author is Yakini-mahattara-dharma-sunu Haribhadra (1966b, 3)).3
Printed NandiCu. 1928 and Nandi. 1931; 1966b.
3.1 Śrīcandra, pupil of Dhanesvara, pupil of Salibhadra, commentary on Haribhadra's Vivarana, Vrtti-Tippana, 3 300 granthas, also called Durgapadavyākhyā (JRK 201). Printed Nandi. 1966b.
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*Srinandisutrasya Durgapadavyakhya : Haribhadriyakrtteh kathinasthalanam visistavivaranarupa / Candrasuripranita. Prathamavrttih. Surata: Devacandra Lalabhai Jainapustakoddhara Samstha, 1969. 6, 100 p. ; [1] leaf of plates: 1 col. port. ; 25 cm. (Sresthi Devacandra Lalabhai Jaina pustakoddhare; granthankah; 113).
3.2 Visamapadatippanaka, attributed to Candrakīrti Sūri at first by Muni Punyavijaya, but he later changed his mind on the basis of further research and said authorship of this cty was not settled (Prastāvanā 1966b. 11-12).
Printed Nandi. 1966b.
Malayagiri, Ṭīkā (mentions both NandiCu. and Haribhadra's Vivarana) 7 732 granthas (JRK 201).5
Editions of which the details have not yet been traced (1) *[Mūla. Bikanera: Sethiya Jaina granthalaya.] [JSBI 2: 303n1] (2) *[Mūla. Dehali : Mahāvīra Jaina Bhāṇḍāra.] [JSBI 2: 304 n.1]-(3) *[Mūla / Sadhvi Šītakumvaraji. Udayapura, Rajasthāna: Śrī Taraka Guru Jaina granthalaya] [Devendra Muni 1977, 719 item
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2 Muni Jambūvijaya has drawn attention to the fact that at the time of Simhasuri's commentary on Mallavadin's Dvādaśāranayacakra-prior to the council of Valabhi-parts of the Nandisūtra were identified as bhāṣya, however the text as handed down does not have such a division now (Mallavādi. Dvādaśāranayacakra / edition by Muni Jambūvijaya 1966-88: 1, Sanskrit Prakkathana, 24).
3 The commentary by Hemacandra Maladharin is no longer extant, but it "must have been a cty on the Nandīṭīkā of Haribhadra, dealing with the five kinds of knowledge" (E. A. Solomon, Gaṇadharavada, 1966, p. 17). Kapadia's comment that this is "A small gloss on Nandisutra" [BORI Cat 17:2, 307] seems to be mistaken. 5 A section of the commentary (the refutation of theism) is given by F. C. Schrader, Über den Stand der indischen
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Philosophie zur Zeit Mahāvīras und Buddhas, p. 62 ff. (Winternitz 1933:2, 472 n.2). "... The story of the *Judgement of Solomon' has been translated according to the Antarakathasangraha by L. P. Tessitori in Indian antiquary 42 (1913), 148 ff. together with another Jinistic recension (from Malayagiri's commentary on the Nandi-sūtra). Hertel (Geist des Ostens 1 (1913) 189 ff. compares the Jinistic recension with the Hebrew one ..." (Winternitz 1933:2, 544 n.1).