Ratnakarandaka Shravakachara

SR No.: 010669
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jugalkishor Mukhtar
Publisher: Manikchand Digambar Jain Granthamala Samiti
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 456
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 7 MB

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समय - निर्णय ।
तस्मिन्गते स्वर्गभुवं महर्षो दिवः पतीन्नर्तुमिव प्रकृष्टान् । तदन्वयोद्भूतमुनीश्वराणां बभूवुरित्थं भुवि संघभेदाः || स योग संघचतुरः प्रभेदानासाद्य भूयानविरुद्धवृत्तान् । बभावयं श्रीभगवान्जिनेन्द्र चतुर्मुखानीव मिथः समानि ॥ देव-नन्दि - सिंह-सेन - संघभेदवर्तिनां देशभेदतः प्रबोधभाजि देवयोगिनां । वृत्तितस्समस्ततोऽविरुद्धधर्मसे विनां मध्यतः प्रसिद्ध एष नन्दि-संघ इत्यभूत् ॥ — शिलालेख नं० १०८ ( २५८ ) ।
इन वाक्यों द्वारा यह सूचित किया गया है कि अकलंकदेव ( राजवार्तिकादि ग्रंथों के कर्ता ) की दिवः प्राप्ति के बाद, उनके वंशके मुनियोंमें, यह चार प्रकारका संघभेद उत्पन्न हुआ जिसका कारण देश-भेद है और जो परस्पर अविरुद्ध रूप से धर्मका सेवन करनेवाला है । अकलंक से पहले के साहित्यमें इन चार प्रकारके संघों का कोई उल्लेख भी अभीतक देखने में नहीं आया जिससे इस कथन के सत्य होने की बहुत कुछ संभावना पाई जाती है ।
१८१
( ४ ) ' षट्खण्डागम' के प्रथम तीन खंडोंपर कुन्दकुन्दने १२ हजार श्लोकपरिमाण एक टीका लिखी, यह उल्लेख भी मिथ्या ठहरता है ।
(५) उपलब्ध जैनसाहित्य में कुन्दकुन्दके ग्रंथ ही सबसे अधिक प्राचीन ठहरते हैं और यह उस सर्वसामान्य मान्यता के विरुद्ध पड़ता है जिसके अनुसार कर्म-प्राभृत और कषाय- प्राभृत नामके वे ग्रंथ ही प्राचीनतम माने जाते हैं जिन पर धवलादि टीकाएँ उपलब्ध हैं ।

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In that time, the great sage, having attained heaven, danced as it were, with the best of the celestial beings. From that lineage, there arose four types of divisions in the Sangha of the Muni-ishwaras, due to differences in the land. The Lord Jinendra, being wise in the Sangha, seeing these four types of divisions, which were not contradictory to each other, became like four faces, all the same. The Deva-Nandi-Singha-Sena - Sangha divisions, due to differences in the land, became enlightened by the Deva-Yogis. From the point of view of conduct, all of them were not contradictory to the Dharma, and thus, the Nandi-Sangha became famous in the middle. - Inscription No. 108 (258).

These verses indicate that after the attainment of heaven by Akalankadeva (the author of Rajavartika and other works), four types of divisions arose in the Sangha of his lineage, due to differences in the land, and which were not contradictory to each other in their practice of Dharma. No mention of these four types of Sangha has been found in the literature before Akalanka, which makes the truth of this statement highly probable.

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(4) The statement that Kundakunda wrote a commentary of 12,000 verses on the first three sections of the 'Shatkhandagama' is also false.
(5) The available Jain literature suggests that the works of Kundakunda are the most ancient, which contradicts the general belief that the works called 'Karma-Prabhrita' and 'Kashaya-Prabhrita', on which commentaries like Dhavala are available, are the most ancient.