Karkanda Chariu

SR No.: 034918
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kankamar Muni
Publisher: Karanja Jain Publication
Publication Year: 1934
Total Pages: 364
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 33 MB

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Svetambara and Digambara Jainas, he has to be assigned to a period sufficiently removed from the origin of Buddhism as well as the sectarian split amongst the Jainas.
The old literature which I have been able to find out on Karakanda is as
follows:
BUDDHIST
1. The story of Karandu forming part of the Kumbhakara Jātaka (Jātaka No. 403 ).1
SVETAMBARA
2. Uttaradhyayana Sutra XVIII, 46, mentions Karakandu as the king of Kalinga who, like Durmukha of Pancala, Nami of Videha and Naggai of Gandhara, renounced his kingdom in favour of his son and became a sage.2
3. Säntisuri, in his commentary called Sishyahita on the Uttaradhyayana Sutra, gives the story of Karakandu, like Devendra. He is said to have died in Samvat 1096-1040 A. D.3
4. Devendra in his commentary called Sukhabodha on the UttaradhyayanaSutra gives the story of Karakandu. This work, according to the prasasti, was completed at Anhila-patana in Samvat 1129-1073 A. D.4
5. A pupil of Caritravijaya wrote Pratyeka-buddha-caritra in Sanskrit verse. This work does not seem to be very old. 5
6. Subhasilagani, in his Kathakosha, gives the story of Karakanda. 6
7. Samayasundara Upadhyaya wrote Karakandu-chaupai in Hindi verse about the beginning of the 17th century.7
1. Appendix A
2. Dr. Charpentier's edition, Upsala, 1922.
3. Pattavali-sanuccaya, Viramgaon, Gujrat, 1933. p. 54, 153.
4. Charpentier's Introduction to Uttaradhyayana, p. 56; Appendix B.
5. Printed, Jamnagar, 1920.
6. Translated by Tawney.
7. Misra-bandhu-vinoda part I p. 378.