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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INTRODUCTION
Dharma in general, he deals with ten-fold Dharma; and in dealing with lokaa., his details are more cosmological. He concludes his exposition of anupreksa in this manner:
दीव्यन्नाभिरयं ज्ञानी भावनाभिर्निरन्तरम् । इहैकामोत्थनातङ्कं सुखमत्यक्षम्मक्षयम् ॥
farfar vetäänefà amì fastaà vazan | starfa àvià gâ gai meranna, IE एता द्वादश भावनाः खलु सखे सस्योऽपवर्गश्रयस्याः संगमलालसैर्घटयितुं मैत्री प्रयुक्ता बुधैः । एतासु प्रगुणीकृतासु नियतं मुच्यना जायते सानन्दा प्रणयप्रसहृदया योगीश्वराणां सुदे ॥
Hemacandra (A. D. 1089-1172) was a celebrated Jaina teacher and a man of lettors. His works cover a wide range of subjects and testify to his encyclopaedic erudition, extensive study and enormous application. As a poet and as a scholar. Hamarendra wan one of the most versatile and prolific writers; and mainly due to him an augustan period of literature and culture was inaugurated in Gujarat during the benign rule of Siddharaja and Kumarapala. His treatises on grammar, lexicography, metrics and poetics are of great practical importance. He wrote his Yogafästra (also called Adhyatmopanisad) at the request of king Kumarapala who, on hearing it, was won over to Jaina religion. He has added his own Sanskrit commentary to it, including therein, beside explanation of the text, a number of illustrative stories and expository and supplementary verses (antara-sloka). The twelve anupreksas, called bhavanis, are dealt with in the Fourth Prastava, 55-110. The antara-slokas further expound the same idea as contained in the basic verses; in fact, both together, as far as the anupreka section is concerned, form one whole. There are only three basic verses (65-67) in the text on Samsara-bhavana, but there are 90 antara slokas in the commentary containing traditional account of grief and despair in the four grades of worldly existence. Likewise the Loka-bhavana has three main verses (104-6), but the Svopajña commentary gives an exhaustive survey of Jaina cosmography mostly in Sanskrit prose interspersed with some Prakrit quotations from earlier sources.
The exposition is mostly in anustubh verses which reflect Hemacandra more as a moralist teacher: some of his poetic flourish is seen in those verses of long metres which conclude a group of supplementary verses, is characteristic of Hemacandra that he studiously avails himself of earlier literature, bearing on the subject under discussion, and that his Yogasāstra
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1) Ed. Jain Dharma Prasaraka Sabha, Bhavnagar 1926; alao M. WINTERSITE : A History of Indian Literature, II, pp. 567f.