Dravya Sangraha

SR No.: 011098
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nemichandra Siddhant Chakravarti, Saratchandra Ghoshal
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Total Pages: 324
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, P000, & P040
File Size: 29 MB

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INTRODUCTION.
and proceeds to lay down the ways and means to liberation, warning us against the hindrances and obstacles to the same.
Châmunda Râya himself wrote a commentary on GommataCommentaries on såra in Canarese language. In the last verse of Gommatasåra.
Gommatasâra there is a reference to the fact that Châmunda Râya wrote in the popular language a commentary, named Vira-marttaņdi. [Gommatasara, Karmakânda, verse 972.] One of the titles of Châmunda Râya being Viramârttaņda, he named his commentary "Vira-marttaņdi," meaning "composed by Vira-mart.. taņda." This commentary of Chamunda Râya seems to have been lost, and we only have a reference to it in another commentary, named Kesavavarņiyâ Vritti, by Kesavavarņi, in.the opening verse of which the author says: "I write the Vritti on Gommatasâra from the Karnataka Vritti." There is another commentary on Gommatasara, named Mandaprabodhikâ, written by Abhayachandrat. Following these commentaries, Todarmalla has written a commentary in the Hindi language which is widely read by the Jaina Pandits of the present day. Labdhisârall is a treatise on Labdhi, which literally means
"attainment." The sense in which it is used in Labdhisara.
Jaina philosophy is "the attainment of those things which will lead to perfect conduct." Labdbi is said to be of five kinds, * Vide :
गोम्मटसुत्तल्लिहणे गोम्मटरायेण या कया देसी। सोरायो चिरं कालंणामेण य वीरमत्तण्डी॥"
[Gommatasara, Karmakanda, verse 972.] † Vide:
"नेमिचन्द्रं जिनं नत्वा सिद्धं श्रीज्ञानभूषणम् । वृत्तिं गोम्मटसारस्य कुवे कर्णाट-वृत्तितः॥"
[Vpitti by Kešavavarņi.] I Vide:
"मुनि सिद्धं प्रणम्याहं नेमिचन्द्रं जिनेश्वरम् । टीका गोम्मटसारस्य कुवै मन्द-प्रबोधिकाम् ॥"
Commentary by Abhayadeva.) & The editions of Gommata-sära are:
1. Jiva-Kanda (Ed. by Pandit Manoharlal) Bombay, 1914.
2. Karmakanda (Raya Chandra Series) Bombay, 1912.
Labdhisára has not yet been printed, and we give the above account fro a manuscript in the Central Jaina Oriental Library, Arrah. A notice of anothe manuscript of Labdhisära, where a brief summary of the work has also been give may be found in Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts, by Rajendralal Mitra, Vol. C Part I, page 86. The manuscript is there numbered 2980.