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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
1828
A DESOROPTIVE CATALOGUE OF
omits mention of two Praśnas which treat of paitsmedhika rites, and which are reckoned usually to be the thirty-first and thirty-second of the work. In some Mss. however of the thirtieth, thirty-first and thirty-second Praśnas (which are not uncommon in S. India), I have seen them numbered as twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh, and, apparently, excluding the Dharmasūtra.
"Commentaries on the different sections of this huge Sūtra are numerous; and in fragments, at all events, are not uncommon in S. India; but I cannot hear of anything like a complete copy of any one of them. Dhūrtasvāmin, and perhaps also, Kapardisvāmin, have written commentaries (it is said) on the whole. The commentary by the first is vory brief in parts and not of much use in restoring the text as far as the 18 Praśnas go which I possess. It has been annotated by Rāśikarāma. There is also a comment on these Sūtras by Gurudevasvāmin, which is probably an old one, and another (of recent times) by Ahobalapūri. It is not unlikely that Haradatta commented on the whole 30 sections; the tradition in S. India, in fact, that he is the same as Rudradatta, whose commentary has been already described. Under the name of Haradatta are commentaries on the Mantraprašna, Gșhya and Dharma sections (xxvi, xxvii. xxviii, and xxix); his commentary on the gļhya section he termed "Anakulá." (Subdarśanā(cā)rya has also explained the gshya Prbana. I have a copy of an anonymous commentary on the Paribhāxã -(sāmānya) sūtra which is probably by Tālavśntasvāmin. The Sulba praśna has been annotated by Karavindasvāmin, Kapar. disrāmin and Sundararāja. There are also prayoga treatises which are more easily to be had than the commentaries and which are described further on,
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