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
It is true that the Gómitosirom itself is a compendiam based on earlier works like the Dhavada etc. So this cannot be used as a very safe evidenoe. But this ongot be denied that once these compilations of Nemicandra bare exerted tremendous influence on many authore. While explaiding some of the pathās of H.-7: Sublicandra has quoted a large number of verses from the Gömmaticăre and extracts from its commentaries: that only confirms the puspicion whether Kumāra might be working with the Görmafasāra of Nemicandra before him. On this point I have an open mind. In case it oan be further substantiated that Kumira is indebted to Nemicandra, he will have to be assigned to a period later than Necnicandra who fourished in the 10th century A.D. (last quarter).
On the date of Kumāra (and his K-Anupi eks). all that can be
ely said is that he is luter than Kundakunda, Vattakera, Sivārya, Umāsvāti, Pūjyapāda (c. 5th century A.D.) and Joindu (c. 6th century A, D.), and perhaps Nemicandra (10th century A.D.), but before Brahmsdeva (c. 13th century A.D.). This is a broad range indeed, and future researches alone can bring the two limits nearer,
The above limits are arrived at by me through the critical and comparative methods of study and objective evaluation of the available evidence. They are in conflict with some traditional views; they are already subjected to some criticisin in certain respects: and the responsibility of explaining my position with reforence to them has to be duly borne by me.
i) The oral tradition recorded by PANNALAI guys that the autbor of the K-Anuprekşi flourished some two or three centuries before the Vikrama era, and the subsequent opinions of some scholars that Svāmi Kumára preceded Kundakunda and Umāsvāti" are linked up with the identification of Kumāra ( = Kärttikeya) with Kicttika or Kārttikeya who was hit by king Krautica. The legends and tales do not mention that Kārttikeya was an author or an author of this work ; 80 the identification is not proved; consequently, the date based on this has no value at all,
1) N. Prem: Jaina Sahitya fur Ithaca (Bombay 1956), pp. 41 £ 2) A. N. UPADHY:: Paromātiraprakāśa (Bombay 1937), Intro., pp. 63 f. Ibidem pp. 70E 3) See the reference noted above,
4) The twelve Anuprekey are a part of Jains l'aith. Svāmi Kártikeya seems to be the first who wrote on them. Other writers have only copied and repeated him. Even the Drādasām prehod of Kundakundiairya seems to have been written on its model. Na wouder, if Sv&mi Karttikeya preceded KundakuodãoĒrya. Any way he is an ancient writer." Catalogue of Sk, and Pk. MSS. in the C. P. and Berar, p. XIV; slso WINTERNITZ A History of Indian Literature, vol. II, p. 577. Pt. ĦIRALAL bss uniformly presumed that Karttikeya Hourished earlier than Umāsvāti, gee his Intro., (pp. 43.) to the Varunandi Grāmaksoara, Bedra 1952.
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