Pravachansara

SR No.: 010843
Original Sutra Author: Kundkundacharya
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Manilal Revashankar Zaveri Sheth
Publication Year: 1935
Total Pages: 595
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 48 MB

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Variant Readings
The dialectal form of the Prakrit gāthās, though they are physically placed in the Sanskrit commentary of Amrtacandra, is substantially made to conform to the text as incorporated in the Sanskrit commentary of
Jayasena, who, as it is evident fiom some of his remarks in his commentaries i on the works of Kundakunda, appears to be particular about the Prakrit text;
and hence, I was tempted to collate the gāthās with the Mss. containing the commentaries of Amộtacandra and Prabhācandra, which have been designated as A and P and are described below. I regret, however, that I could not get a MS. containing only the commentary of Jayasena. A It belongs to Shri Ailaka Pannalal D. Jaina Saraswati Bhavana,
Bombay 4, and it is numbered as 534 57 / 136 . It is a paper MS., oblong in size, measuring about 121 by 61 inches. It contains 70 leaves plus the last one. From the contents it is clear that some leaves after the 70th have been lost; and, therefore, the major portion of the final prose passage in Amrtacandra's commentary is missing ; in the first book gāthā No. 23 with its commentary is not copied due to oversight; otherwise the MS. is quite intact, though the last page is slightly damaged in one corner. The MS. contains the gāthās, chāyā and the Sanskrit commentary of Amrtacandra. The MS. is fairly accurate, especially in Sanskrit portions, leaving aside some orthographical errors that can be easily detected. The writer appears to be an intelligent copyist with an uniform Devanāgarī hand. In the first and the last five pages he has written the introductory remarks, preceding each gāthā, in red ink, but in the middle they are simply rubbed over with red chalk; it is very convenient to read the gāthās only, which, otherwise, would have been very difficult to be detected in those continuously and closely running lines. It is with this MS. that I have checked some of the knotty points in the printed text of the commentary of Amstacandra. The colophon, which gives the date of the MS., runs thus in red ink: इति तत्त्वदीपिका नाम प्रवचनसारवृत्तिः समाप्ता ॥ * ॥ शुभं भवतु मंगलं महा श्री देयाद्विद्या परमेश्वरी ॥ ॥ श्रीः ॥ अथ संवत्सरे श्रीविक्रमादित्यगतान्दाः संवत् ॥ १४९७ ॥ वर्षे ज्येष्ठ सुदि १३ ॥ शनिवासरे श्री टोडामहादुर्गे ॥ श्री मूलसंघे बलात्कारगणे सरस्वतीगच्छे भट्टारकश्रीपद्मनंदिदेवा तत्पढे भट्टारकश्रीशुभचंद्रदेवाः गुरुभ्राता श्रीमदनदेवास्तत्सिष्य ब्रह्मनरसिंह तत्पुस्तकात् मया सुंदरलालेन लिपिकृता इंदोरमध्ये खपठनार्थः संवत् १९३० ॥ श्री ॥ श्रीरस्तु ॥ कल्याणमस्तु लेखकपाठकयोः ॥ श्री॥श्री॥
It can be very easily detected from this colophon that the present MS. is written in Samvat 1930, ať Indore, by Sundaralal from a MS., belonging to Brahma Narasimha, which appears to have been written