Syadwad Muktawali

SR No.: 020789
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S A Upadhyay
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1969
Total Pages: 50
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 2 MB

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SYÄDVADAMUKTAVALI OR JAINAVIŠEŞATARKA
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philosophy. The work, thus, is to be reckoned as an elementary text-book and not as critical or original exposition. It is, indeed, for the siśuprabodhāyas2 as the author rightly points out in the opening stanza.
XIII. The title of the present work is the Syüdvādamuktāvali, as is evident from the verse 25 of the three chapters and from the colophons at the end of the first two chapters. The opening stanza, however, refers to the work as the Jainaviseşatarka which seems to be an alternative title for the present work:
Another work entitled Sri Jaina Syādvādamuktavali by the same author, Yaśasvatsāgara, edited by Muni śri Buddhisāgaraji was published by Shri Jhaveri Vadilal Vakhatacand at Ahmedabad in V.S. 1965 (= 1909 A.D.). This work is referred to as Syādvādainuktavali in stanzas I. 99, II. 77, III. 37 and IV. 43 as well as in the colophons at the end of the four chapters. The opening verse refers to this work as Jainavišesatarka.
Are these two works identical? Undoubtedly not. Sri Jaina Syādvādamuktavali, published from Ahmedabad, contains four chapters of 89, 77, 37 and 44 stanzas respectively. These four chapters deal with pratyakşa, parokşa, prameya and sannayanirņaya respectively. The present text, published herewith. contains three chapters of 25 stanzas each, dealing with syādväda, pratyaksa and anumāna respectively. The two works are, therefore, quite different. This is corroborated by the analysis of the contents and by the treatment of different topics in both the works.
The problem is: why Yaśasvatsāgara gave the identical title and the identical alternative title to his two different works? It is difficult to put forward any convincing conjecture. Equally difficult it is to decide which work was composed earlier. Is it that the present work was composed later, as the author found that his other work was considered rather difficult by the students in the beginning?
The present text is entitled as Syādvādamuktavali in accordance with the colophons. The title Jainavišeşatarka is regarded as the alternative title as it is mentioned only in the opening stanza.63 Both the titles, however, are used for this text in order to distinguish it from the text entitled Śrī Jaina śyādvādamuktāvali (also, Syādvādamuktavalī and Jainavišeşatarka) published from Ahmedabad
62. Cf. 1. 1. 63. Kapadia, H.R., Cat., Vol. XVIII, Part I, Poona, 1952, p. 11. records the title Gafas [ FOTETETTast] and notes: "Both these names are mentioned by the author himself, one just in the very first verse and the other, in the last verse.