Anekantajay patakakhyam Prakaranam Part 2

SR No.: 008406
Original Sutra Author: Haribhadrasuri
Author: Munichandrasuri
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1947
Total Pages: 503
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Philosophy
File Size: 11 MB

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(61) Caityavandanasūtravṛtti' or Lalitavistarā2
Lalitavistara is the name mentioned by the author himself in the concluding portion of this work. As stated in the beginning* and the end as well, it is a com. to Ceïyavandaṇasutta (Sk, Caityavandanasutra) which includes Paṇivayasutta (Sakrastava), Arihanta-ceiya-thava, Annaitha Käusagga )sutta, Logassa, Suyatthava, Siddhatthava, Veyavaccasutta and Panihaṇasutta. The com. on Panivayasutta is the biggest; for, it occupies pp. 9a° to 76b out of 118. With the exception of four introductory verses, five verses at the end and some casual verses quoted in the body, the work is composed in prose, in Samskṛta, It is mentioned by Siddharsi in his Upamiti
in the end.
INTRODUCTION
From v. 3 it appears that there was no com. on Ceiyavandanasutta till Haribhadra composed this Lalitavistara; otherwise he would have noted it as he did in his com. to Āvassaya. Hence he is the first to comment on this work. So says Anandasagara Suri in his preface (p. 2, Rutlam ǝdn.). On p. 3 he observes that Haribhadra is the first to point out the vidhi of caityavandana.
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Haribhadra has referred to and refuted the following doctrines in Lalitavistara and thereby has tried to establish that only the Jaina Tirthankaras are the apta personages:
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Doctrine
Ajivikanayamata Avartakalakaraṇavāda
Advaita
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Propounder or followers Pupils of Gosalaka
Ananta
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Aviruddhadharmädhyāsitavastuväda
Sucăru
1 This work along with Municandra Suri's Pañjika is published in D. L. J. P. F. Series as No. 29 in 1915 A. D. It is also published along with a rippanika by R. K. Samstha, Ratlam, in 1934 A. D.
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2 This may remind one of Lalitavistara, a Bauddha work written in 'Gatha-Samskṛta', a mixture of Samskṛta and Avahattha according to "a gaut sıfèzni qacar" (p. 5) by Mr. B. J. Sandesara, Some of the portions of this Lalitavistara are as old as the first century A. D. No portion is later than the the eighth; for, hereafter this work was translated into Tibetan. See A History of Indian Literature (Vol. II, pp. 253-254).
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See the first verse of the ending portion.
4-5 See the first verse in the very beginning and the first in the end. 6 This page-number refers to DLJP edn.
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