Samraicca Kaha Vol 01

SR No.: 010741
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Asiatic Society
Publication Year: 1926
Total Pages: 938
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 33 MB

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INTRODUCTION
fertile authors id Jaina Litorature as regards not only the number of the worked he wrote, but also the diversity of the subjecta he treated. Jinavijaya (1.o. p. 3) enumerates 26 works of H. as the most renowned ones, of which 20 have been edited : and Kalyanavijaya (1.c. p. 139–19a) has drawn up a list of all his works, actually preserved or known from quotations only; hig list contains 88 entries. Great as this number is, still it would be but a small fraction of the total of his writings if' tradition might be credited, which ascribes to him the composition of 1,400 prakaranas. This tradition is found already in our oidest sources of H.'s life (a and b), and it can be traced further back to 1068 A.D., being contained in Abhayadeva's liki on H.'s Pancāsaka finished in that year. Now it is altogether inoredible that the Jainas should have been so extremely oareloss in handing down the works of their famous author that a few centuries after his death even the titles of the great majority of them should have been forgotten, seeing that two works which he left unfinished, viz., Tattvartha-loghuvștti and Piņņaniryukti, have nevertheless been preserved. Unless, thereford, the number 1,400 be a mere hyperbole without any special moaning, we must assume that in this connexion prakarana does not denoto as usually a separate systematic treatine, but is used in en more restricted sense so that the Pancāsaka contains 50 prakaranas, Ast Aka 32, şodasaka 16, etc., dut on what prinoiplo in other cases his books were split into a great number of prakaranas it is impossible to say
"Haribhadra wrote in Sanskrit and Prakrit hosh in verse and in prose, mostly of course in illustration of Jaina doctrines, Two sides of his literary activity deserve special notice, hin commenting on canonical works in Sanskrit, and his discussing, with an intimate knowledge, the doetrines of Brahmans and Buddhists.
The old commentaries of the canonical books, the Niryuktis, Cūrņis, and old Bhasyas, were written in Prakrit through
I Rajasekhara (1349 A.D.). assigns him 1440 'pr. and four writum (between the 18th shd 18th century) 1414 pr., nee Kalyanavijaya l.c. p. 11 519a.