Padmanandi Panchvinshti

SR No.: 020961
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Balchandra Siddhantshastri
Publisher: Jain Sanskruti Samrakshak Sangh
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 359
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 9 MB

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PADMANANDI-PANOAVIMŠATI body is the veritable worldly life; so one should not go on nourishing it and be attached to it.
XXV. The Snānastakam (Sn, verses 8) 'Eight stanzas on bathing': The Atman is so pure by nature that no bathing is needed for it; while the body is so impure that bathing can never purify it. Real bathing consists in that sense of discrimination (viveka) which alone wards off the dirt of sin. The real tirtha is the ratnatraya (Right Faith, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct) in which the wise should dip themselves rather than in the stream of Ganges which cannot bestow internal purity and remove the sin. This body is so impure that no amount of tirtha-snāna and camphor-paste can purify it; and one day it is sure to decay. So the wise should concentrate themselves on the cultivation of Samyag-darsana etc.
XXVI. The Brahmacaryāstakam (BA, verses 9). Sex-passion is an animal instinct; so the wise people try to avoid it even in the case of their wives, then what to say with regard to other women ! Sex-enjoyment is a trifle of satisfaction, and therefore, it cannot be called happiness. A self-controlled monk has to avoid it fully, because it is harmful to him here and elsewhere : it is a poison which allures fickle minds. This is addressed to those who are aspiring after liberation; so those who are plunged in sex-pleasures should receive it with toleration.
3. PADMANANDI : His AUTHORSAIP
Among the twenty-six prakaranas put together under the common title, Pp, four (XXII, XXIII, XXIV and XXVI) do not mention the name of the author; and the remaining twenty-two specify him as Padmanandi (in Prākrit Poma- or Pomma-namdi 741, 774), sometimes, for metrical necessity, giving, at times by śleşa, the synonyms Abja- (883), Ambhoja- (514), Ambhoruha- (838, 847) and Pankaja-nandi (396, 485, 930); he is qualified by terms like bhavya, muni, yatindra and sūri which show that he was a pious and outstanding monk; and more than once the name of his guru is mentioned as Viranandi (198, indirectly 252 and 546 ). This is all that we know about Padmanandi from this Pp.
Though the four prakaranas, noted above, do not mention the author's name, they have much in common with others : cf. XXII. EB with IV. ES, XXII. 6 and X.SC, 49; cf. XXIII, PV, 9, 10 and 16 with III, AP, 17, XXIII. 18 with I. DA, 55, XXIII. 19 & 20 with I. 54 & XI. NP, 10; cf. XXIV. SA, 1 with III.3, XXIV.5 with III.17 etc.; and cf. XXVI. BA, with XII. BR, especially 665 and 939. Further, in XXVI BA, the author