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
to Visavīsiyā has said that most probably works were composed in the following order :
(i) Commentarios, (ii) religious narrations, (iii) AJP, Lokatattvanirnaya and such other works which expound the Jaina doctrines, (iv) Saddarśanasanuccaya, Sāstravārtásamu. ccaya, Aştaka, Pañcāsaga and such other philosophical treatises, (v) Yogabindu and Yogaďrstisamuccaya and (vi) Visavisiyā.
This is only a rough indication. So I may mention that AJP is preceded by (i) Anekāntasiddhi, (ii) Ātmasiddhi, fiii) Sarunjñasiddhi, (iv) Syüdvādakucodyaparihära, but it is followed by Lalitavistară. Anekintajayapatākoddyoladipika is preceded by AJP and the works that precede it and by (i) Sāstravīrtāsamuccaya and (ii) Sarvajñasiddhițīkū. The com. on Nandi precedes those on Anuogaidāra and Avassaya. The latter precedes Pradeśavyākhyā. Uvaësapaya is earlier than Lalitavistard, and so is Yogadrstisanuccaya in caso its v, 3-11 are not quotations. Dhammasangahani precedes Sarvajñcosiddhi which is preceded by Bhāvanāsiddhi. S'astravārtāsamuccaya has v. 581-583 tallying with v. 11–13 of Sarvajñasiddhi. So one of them is earlier than the other, unless those verses are quotations. Himsástaka precedes the available big com, on Dasaveyaliya. Pañcāsaga seems to be earlier than Visavīsiya.
Contribution to the Bauddha literature Haribhadra has not only explained the Jaina view but has also discussed and refuted in his own way non-Jainu views. We find in his works references about Buddhism. However, the direct service that he rendered to the cause of the Bauddha logic is preserved in his splendid con. to Nyiy xpravesaka. This indirectly acted as an impetus to other Jaina scholars to study the Bauddha logic. It may be added that Haribhadra has many a time refuted Dharmakirti's views in AJP.
Over and above the composition of such a big number of interesting and instructive works, Haribhadra has laid his helping hand in the restoration of Mahûnisiha'.
--- - - ------- 1 This is probably the reason why the oldest Mss. of Dharmakirti's
Vyüyabindu and Dharmottara's con. on it and Säntaraksita's
Tattvasangraha and its Panjiku were found in the Jaina bhandūras. 2 See Prullavakucarita (IX, 219) and DOJM (Vol. XVII, pt, II,
p. 33).