Ancient Jaina Hymns

SR No.: 034743
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Charlotte Krause
Publisher: Oriental Institute
Publication Year: 1952
Total Pages: 184
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 13 MB

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ANCIENT JAINA HYMNS (2) Cintamaại-Pārsvanātha-stava, likewise publish
ed, (3) Antariksa-Pārsva-stava, not found as yet, (4) Tirthamālā, likewise not found as yet, (5) Vidhiprabodha-vādasthala (Prabodhodaya
vādasthala), available in MSS.,? (6) Bphat-tikā to Jinavallabha's Sanghapattaka
prakaraña, published, (7) Vivaraņa to Jinesvara Sūri's Pañcalingi,
published, and (8) Mahāvīra-stuti, published and mentioned
for the first time in this volume.
The Mahāvīra-stuti consists of four Mălini stanzas, the first of which eulogizes Mahavira, while the fourth invokes the “Yaksa Sarvānu”.
The name “Sarvānu” looks like a sanskritization of Prakrit "Savvāņa”, which occurs in the “Vihāyapaņņatti”, the “Bhagavati” of the Jainas (Šataka III, Udde:a 7, Sūtra 168, p. 200), in the description of the retinue of Vesamaņa (Sanskrit “Vaisramaņa" or "Kubera"), one of the four Lokapālas' or frontier-guard officers of Sakra, the Indra of the southern part of the first Heaven "Saudharma”. There, "Savvāņa" is mentioned along with a number of other godlings, such as Māṇibhadra and Pūrộabhadra, known to belong to the “Yaksa" sub-class of the "Vyantaras”,one of the four categories of gods. According to that Sūtra, all those deities were favoured by Vesamaņa as if they were his own offspring ("ahāvaccābhinnāyā”, i. e.,
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
J. St. S. II, p. 44-47. Vide Jinaratnakośa. 1.1. 1. 1. Tattv. IV, 4 and commentaries.
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