Descriptive Catalogue Of Manuscripts Vol 18 Part 01

SR No.: 018124
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hiralal Rasikdas Kapadia
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Publication Year: 1952
Total Pages: 540
Language: English
Classification: Catalogue & Catalogue
File Size: 31 MB

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Preface
(a Svetāmbara work of unknown authorship ) are based upon Kammapayadipahuda, a section of the fifth vafthu, one of the parts of the second puvva. 'Chakhaņdagama, a Digambara work commenced by Puşpadanta and completed by Bhútabali, too, is based upon this very pahuda,
In SHJL (p. 162 ) there is mention of Pancasangraha by Haribhadra Súri, a prolific Śvetāmbara writer. But this work is not available.
Candrarşi (mahattara ?), a pupil of Pārsvarsi is another important svetāmbara writer on the doctrine of karman. His work ? Pañcasangaha ( furnished with an auto-commentary) is a compendium wherein the following five olden works are utilized :
(1) Kammapayadi, (2) Kasaya pahuda, (3) ( Bandha-)sayaga, (4) Santakamma ( Sk. Satkarman ) and ( 5 ) Sattariya.
Turning to the Digambara literature we come across a Soraseni work named as Pañcasangaha. It is a compendium of unknown authorship having five constituents as under:
(1) Jiva-sarūva, ( 2 ) payadi-samukkittaņa, ( 3 ) kamma-tthaya, ( 4 ) sayaga and ( 5 ) sattariya.
'This compendium seems to be later than Dhavala, a commentary on the first five khandas ( sections ) of Chakhandagama. Gommatasara, too, a work of Nemicandra, a Digambara writer is known as Pancasangaha. It has two sections named asjivakaņda' and 'kamma-kaņda' having 733 and 932 verses respec. tively. It has for its basis Dhavalā. Laddhisara is another work of this Nemicandra. It is looked upon as an appendix to Gommatasåra. It, too, expounds the doctrine of karman.
Amitagati has named his work as Pañcasangraha. It is composed in Sanskrit in Samvat 1073. It is almost a Sanskrit version of Gommațasära. There is another Sanskrit work of this name. Its author is Dhadhaha, a Digambara.3
Rhavandsåra is another important work of Nemicandra. This work along with Laddhisara describes in full the process of attain
1 See p. xiv, fn. 7.
2 A detailed acoount of this work and its commentaries is given by me in“ (HiTETUT quidlaa" published in J DP ( Vol. 67, No 2 & 3-4).
3 Vide Jinaratnakośa (Vol. I, p, 229).