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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KARTTIKETANUPREKSA
ii) Pt. JUGALKISHORAJI' admits, while reviewing my views expressed in my Introduction to the P.-prakasa, that Kumara flourished after Umisväti, but not very late after him. He comes out with series of arguments that the gatha No. 279 must be a praksipta or a later interpolation in Kunāra's text; so, in his opinion, Kumara need not be later than Joindu. Arguments based on context, consistency, propriety etc. can never prove by themselves any verse to be prakṣipta: it is necessary that Ms. evidence that such a verge is absent in certain codices has to be brought forth. That is not done by him so far. Further, the verse in question is not bodily taken over, but the dohi is duly converted into a gatha; it is not an accidental but a purposeful adaptation and the crucial Apabhramsa forms have persisted. So the arguments that the verse in question is praksipta hold no water. As long as it is not shown that the verse in question is not found in certain authentic Mss, and that both Joindu and Kumara owe this or a similar verse to some earlier author, the conclusion is irresistible that Kumara is later than Joindu.
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iii) Dr. J. P. JAIN writes thus about Kumara, the author of K-Anupreksä:
"Kumaranandi, the saint of Uchchainagar [Uccanagari Sakhā] who figures in an inscription from Mathura of the year 67 (or 87-8) (Early Saka era of 66 B. o. and therefore assigned to c. 1-21 A.D.) seems to have been another contemporary of Lohacharya, He seems to be identical with Kumaranandi whom several commentators of Kundakunda describe as a guru of the latter. Further, Kumaranandi also seems to be identical with Svami Kumara, the author of the Kartikeyanupreksa, an ancient Prakrit text. His times would be circa 20 B.0.-20 A. D.
This means that Kumaranandi, mentioned in an inscription from дцять Mathura e. 1-21 A. D., is being identified with the namesake, the of Kundakunda as well as the author of K.-Anupreked. There is a good deal of defective logic and make-belief-argumentation in his observations: Kumaranandi and Svami Kumara are not identical names; the Mathura inscription does not mention him as an author of Anupreksa text; the text of the K-Anuprekṣā does not assign Svami Kumara to Uccanagari Sakha. So there is no common ground for this proposed identification, and naturally the date assigned to Svami Kumara cannot be accepted.
1) See the reference above, and also his Jaina-Sahitya aura Itihasa para vitada prakata, Caloutta 1956, pp. 492 £
2) The Voice of Ahinsa, No. 7, July 1958, in his article The Pioneers of Jaina Literature', p. 197.