Jainism and Karnataka Culture

SR No.: 011062
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S R Sharma
Publisher: Karnataka Historical Research Society Dharwar
Publication Year: 1940
Total Pages: 263
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO LITERATURE ETC. 69 invariably get bondage with punya-karma; hence he can never achieve absolute annihilation of Karma.
One may understand the true nature of Tirthankara; one may have interest in and devotion to the scripture; one may have self-control and penance; with all these, if he is not capable of realising his own true-self, to him Nirvāṇa is beyond reach.'
He preaches Viturāga or non-attachment as the final way to Mokșa :
तम्हा णिध्वुदिकामो रागं सम्वत्थ कुणदिमा किंधि ।
सो तेण वीदरागो भविभो भवसायरं सरदि ॥ The next name in the Digambara lists of the South is that of Umāsvāti or Umāswāmi who is said to have been a disciple of Kundakundācārya. 10 But the only work of his which is respected by the Digambaras and also the Svetāmbaras is the Tattvārthādhigama Sutra, which Mr. Hiralal calls the Jaina Bible' just as he described Kundakunda's works as 'the Jaina Vedānta.'11 No less than 500 works are said to have been composed by Umāsvāti, of which, however, only five have survived. The colophon to all of these (viz. (1) Tatvārthadhigama Sūtra ; (ii) Bhāșya on the same; (iii) Püja-prakarana; (iv) Jambudwipa-samāsa; and (v) Praśamarati. ] as published by the Asiatic Society of Bengal reads :
plat: paigtaİRT #61 Ourenara pasta 12 He appears to have died about the 142 S.V. or 85 A.D,18 It is a moot-question whether he could be mentioned among the Southern or Karnāțaka writers; but we give him a place
9 Pancāstikāyasara, v 177 and 179. The last is thus rondorod into Sanskrit :
तस्मानिवृत्तिकामो रागं सर्वत्र करोतु मा किचित् ।
सो तेन वीतरागो भव्यो भवसागरं तरति ॥ ct. Chakravarti, Pancastikāyasára, S.W.J. III, pp. 168 ff. 10 Cf. Hoerple, op. cit., p. 341; Potorgon, op. cit., IV Index, pp. xvi-vii. 11 Hirālāl, op. cit., pp. vi, vii. 19 Ibid., p. xiii. 13 Cf. Hoernle, op. cit., p. 341.