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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is indebted to the Juandrnava is already accepted. Subhacandra preseribes samatva or equanimity towards living beings, reflection on non-attachment, eradication of distractions and resorting to bhava-suddhi, i. e., cleansing of the heart or purification of mind; and to achieve all this Anuprekṣās or Bhāvanas are helpful (II. 4 f.). Hemacandra says likewise that samya or equanimity results from non-attachment for the cultivation of which one should resort to Bhāvanās (IV. 55 ab). A close study of these two texts shows that Hemacandra is studiously brief all along. At times he incorporates almost bodily some verses with common ideas and words (J II. iii, 7-8 & Y IV. 65), in some places summarises the detailed exposition (J II, iv. 5-6 & Y IV. 69; J II. vii, 9 & Y IV. 78), and now and then uses the capital of ideas (J II, i. 11, 16, 41 & Y IV. 57-8; J II, i. 42 & Y IV. 59-2 etc.; J II. ii. 4, 5, 8 & Y IV. 61-63; J II. vii. 5-7 & Y IV. 76-7; J II. vii. 1-3, 6, 9 & Y IV. 79-80, 82-3; J II. ix. 1-3 & Y II, 86-7), at times even in identical expressions (J II. i. 40b & Y IV, 59b; J II. ii. 12-13 & Y IV 64-1-2; J II. vii 3b & Y IV, 75a; J II ix. 4 & Y IV. 88; J II. x. 7, 128, 14b & Y IV, 99. 102; J II. xi, 3 & Y IV.106; J II.xii4-5& Y IV 108). Hencadia's eloquent glezifuation of Dhonor. reminds one of Haribhadra's praise of it at the beginning of the Samaraicca kaha. In his prose commentary and supplementary verses included there he gives good many ideas and illustrations which are drawn from canonical texts like the Uttarajjhayana und Siyagaḍam. In certain places he brings far more information, elucidative of Jainism and critical of other faiths, than is found in the Jñdnarnava. His four basic verses on the Anitya-bhāvanā stand thus (No. 55-60):
यदप्रातस्तश्च मध्याह्ने यम्मध्या न तनिशि । निरीक्ष्यते भवेऽस्मिन् हि पदार्थानामनित्यता ॥ शरीरं देहिनां सर्वपुरुषार्थंनिबन्धनम् । प्रचण्डपवनोद्धूतघनाघनविनश्वरम् ॥ कोलपा लक्ष्मीः संगमाः खप्रसंनिभाः । वात्वाम्यतिकरोविझतुलतुल्यं च यौवनम् ॥ इस्मनित्यजगद्वृत्तं स्थिरचिसः प्रतिक्षणम् । तृष्णाकृष्णाहिमश्राय निर्ममत्वाय चिन्तयेत् ॥
The Bhavabhavana is composed by Maladhari Hemacandra, the pupil of Abhayadeva, in the year A, D. 1181. It deals with 12 Bhāvanās in an exhaustive manner, in 531 gathas. In this work the term bhavana practically takes place of anupreksa; it is the reflection on bhava or samsara that is more important; and it serves as a ladder to reach the abode of liberation. The
4) G. J. PATEL: Yogatastra (Ahmedabad 1938), Intro. pp. 35.; NATHURAM PREMI Jaina Sahitya aura Itihasa (Bombay 1956) pp. 335f.
5) Ed. Bri-gabhadeva Kesarimalaji Jalos Svetambara Bazetbe, I vol., with Svopsjña com, Surat 1995; Bare Text with Sk. Chaya, Ibidem, Surat 1937, M. WINTERNITZ: A History of Indian Lit., p. 589.