Kartikeyanupreksha

SR No.: 090248
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kumar Swami
Publisher: Paramshrut Prabhavak Mandal
Total Pages: 589
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Religion
File Size: 19 MB

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XABTFIKEYANUPREKEX
b) THE TATTVÄRTEA-SÕTKA AND ITH COMMENTARIES
It is already noted above that the Testtrarthasūtru (IX. 2,7) mentions anuprekę as an agency of samara; and the twelve anupreksis enumerated in the Sutra are elaborated by various commentators, The Tattvärthadhi. gamas-Whāsya' and the Sarvärthasiddhi are the two basic sources, with much in common both in thoughts and expressions; and they have given u positive lead to the subsequent commentaries in fixing the scope, in supplying the thought-capital and in outlining the details of each anuprekoi. It may be garn hore how some important and exhaustive commentaries bave elaborated these very ideas.
The Rajavārttikot of Akalanka (e. last quarter of the 7th century A. D.) not only incorporates practically the whole of the exposition of the Sarvārthasiddhi on the anwyreksas but also adds more precise definitions and supplements as well as olaborates with technical details somo of its points. Sometimes, as in the case of bodhridurlabha-a., the technical details are strikingly elaborated. Akalanku impresses one as a typical Naiyáyika with 21 marvellous mastery over Jaina dogmatic details.
The Bhāsyānustirings of Siddhagena (c, 7th to 9th century of the Vikrama era) is an exhaustive exposition of the 1.-bhäsya. But on the Satras in question, it primarily interprets and now and then elaborately explains with some dogmatical dotails the very text of the Bhagya. What
triking is that there is no further contribution to or development of the thonght-pattern of Anapreksā, as we find on the section of dhyānas etc. where some additional verses are quoted by Siddhasena,
The Tattoirtha-sloka-ivāttikca of Vidyananda (C. A.D. 775-840 ) has hardly anything to add on the anuprekşi Sūtras beyond repeating the vürttikams of Akalanka in a string and then rounding off the explanation with a couple of verses. There is no further advance on the thought-pattern and supplementation to the ideas already recorded by the Sarvarthasiddhi.
1) SUKEALALAJI SANGaayi: Taltvāratha-stra (Bariaras 1939), Intro., pp. 36 ff. 2) In the Räyacandra Jaina Sastramila, Bombay 1931.
3) For editions, K, B, NITAYS: Kolhapur 1917: PAQOLCANDA SAABTEI: Jiadapttha M, J. C, No. 13, Beogra 1955.
4) Ed. MAHENDRAXUMAB JAIN: Jilavapitba M. J.O., No. 10 A 20, Banerus 1953–57.
5) Ed. H, R. KAPADIA in the Seth Devachand L. J. P. Fund Series, Nor, 67 sod 76; Bombay 1926-30. 6) Ed, MANOBARLAL, Bombay 1918; also DARABAKILAL JAINA: Apta parikei, Delhi
1949.