Mahavira and his Teaching

SR No.: 008019
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: C C Shah, Rishabhdas Ranka, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Bhagwan Mahavir 2500th Nirvan Mahotsava Samiti
Publication Year: 1977
Total Pages: 509
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Biography, Religion, & Principle
File Size: 12 MB

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LUDWIK STERNBACH
9.10. The Vivek a-śāstravicāra - s u bhāşit a-gāt hā is an incomplete (2 folia only) anonymous collection of ethical verses on Jaina scriptures; it is written in Jain devanāgarī characters on brown paper, 22-24 lines to a page; it dates from the seventeenth century and is kept in the India Office Library (A. B. Keith, No. 7699/3397); 9.11. The Jınaratnakośa, an Alphabetic Register of Jain Works and Authors, edited by H. D. Velankar (Government Oriental Series, Class C. No. 4), Poona 1946, mentions additionally the following unpublished Jinistic subliāșita-samgraha-s (pp. 445-6; 448-9): (1) Su bhāşita mentioned in the Alphabetical Catalogue prepared by K. H. Jhaveri (1.4.5.) and in the List of Jain works prepared under the auspices of the Jaina Svetāmabra Conference and published by the same body at Bombay Pydhoni, 1909 (JG.), No. 341, (ii) Subhāşitak u la ka by Jina pra bh a written in Apabhramsa and kept in the Jain Bhandar at Patan (Catalogue I.; p. 264; (111) Subhasitakoś a by Rām a candra, mentioned in JG, p. 342; (iv) Subhāsita giantha by Kirtivija ya kept in the Hāja Patel's Pole Ahmedabad (A List of MSs. in the Bhandar of the Vimala Gaccha Upāśraya 18 (22); (v) Subhāşita ratna kosa by Munideva Ācārya, composed of 58 kārika-s, kept in the śāntināth Temple of Cambay (Catalgoue 31 (8) and also mentioned by P. Peterson in his First Report (A.p. 74); (vi) S u bhäsitarat nāv ali also called (Subhāsitā vali) by Sakala kirti which contains 392 Sanskrit verses. This MS. is kept in Arrah (Nos. 156, 160, 187), in the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Nos. 1534, 6633), in the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona (Nos. 1157 to 1159 of 1884-87), in CP. and Berar (Catalogue p. 712), in Bhandar of Dhannālāl of Bombay (18), in the Digambar Bhandar of Idar near Ahmedabad (121, 7c), in the Pannālāl Jain Sarasvati Bhavan, Bhuleśvara (Bombay) No. 39. The MS. is also mentioned in P. Peterson's Fourth and Fifth Reports (Nos. 1497 and 985 respectively), in the Uebersicht ueber die Avašyaka Literatur, Hamburg 1934, p. 312 and in JG. p. 342. According to the Catalogue of the Government Oriental