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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INTRODUCTION
by an anonymous author. The text is one whole work having five sections. They are closely related to one other, and each of them has a significant title. Section I begins with a salutation to the Jaina Tirthankaras. This is followed by the exposition of four shelters, reprobation of bad deeds and practice of good deeds. Section II deals with the preparatory stage of faith and devotion, which goes up to the acquisition of the five minor Vows of the Jaina laity. Section III shows what an aspirant of the Jaina order of clergy should do before he enters it. In section IV the rigorous life of a monk is depicted. Section V deals with the liberated condition of the soul. In this text we come across illustrations of which I note the following:
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अट्ठाण गिलाणो सहत्थचाग (p. 21 ), अवि हिअगहि अमन्त (p. 23 ), आमकुम्भोदगनास ( p. 28), कंचणोवल ( p. 27 ), अलाउप्पभिइ (p. 27 ), वाहिअसुकिरिआ (p. 24 ), विसन्नतत्तीफल (p. 24 ) and सिसुजणणिचाय (p. 23 ).
The com. by Haribhadra elucidates the text and indulges in quotations in Samskṛta and Paiya. The editor of the com. has not presented them together; nor has he noted their sources. A quotation on p. 9a tallies with v. 28 of the 'samyaktvädhikara' of Sambohapayarana and one on p. 28a with Visavisiyā (XX, 18). On p. 11a are quoted the following two verses which shed light on the traditional view about the distribution of domestic expenditure:
“पादमायान्निधिं कुर्यातं पादं वित्ताय वर्धयेत् । धर्मोपभोगयोः पादं पादं भर्तव्यपोषणे ॥ erra fageta að varsfuð aa: 1 शेषेण शेषं कुर्वीत यत्नतस्तुच्छमैहिकम् ॥"
(63a) Vargakevalikasūtravṛtti
This is a com. on Vaggakevaliyasutta (Sk. Vargakevalikasutra), a Ms. of which was brought to Haribhadra by a Jaina named Vasuki, a resident of Benares. In order to explain its contents Haribhadra composed a com, on it, on being so requested by the Jaina leaders. Things which
1 Compare this section with Visarisiya (XX) and Devindatthava (v. 278-301).
2 Lord Mahavira is mentioned as an example who avoided misery to his parents which would have involved evil.
3 This refers to Prof. A. N. Upadhye's second edn.
4 This may remind one of Gargarṣi's Pāsakevali ( Päśakakevali).
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