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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KARTTIKKYÄNUPREKṢA
is concerned, Subhacandra has before him almost a definite text of which, it is his object to expound and elaborate the meaning, in its manifold ramifications. As a rule, he explains in Sanskrit the Prakrit text, very rarely with different readings in view (as on p. 245), giving detailed paraphrase in the form of questions and answers which are useful to bring out the grammatical relations in a sentence. Now and then he quotes parallel and elucidatory verses in Sanskrit, Prakrit and Apubhramsa in his commentary; and their bulk increases, almost beyond limit, whenever dogmatical exposition is elaborated. The commentary on the Dharma- and Loka-anuprekṣas is a good instance to the point. What is stated or even hinted in the text by Kumara Subhacandra elaborates not only by quoting versos or sutras from works like the Gommatasara, Tattvärtha-sutra, Dravyasamgraha, Jñänarnava etc. but also by adding quite lengthy excerpts from their commentaries. These long passages, full of enumerations, classifications etc. are made almost a part and parcel of his commentary which becomes often mechanical and para-pusta, i. e., swollen by the stuff from others. It is not unlikely that some of these passages were added later by Laksmicandra who, under the prasada of Subbacandra, is said to have expanded this Vṛtti. To a pious reader, however, this commentary is a blessing, because it brings together information from various sources.
ii) Its Striking Indebtedness to Others
The sources used by Subhasandra are obvious to us from his quotations (which are duly listed by me, with their sources wherever they could be spotted, pp. 449-65) from the works, as well as authors, mentioned by him (pp. 469-70) and from discussions, the counterparts of which could be traced in earlier works, Aa far as I can detect, Subhacandra has drawn major portions of extracts, sometime word to word, from the Malacara of Vaṭṭakers with Vasunandi's commentary (cf. vol. I, p. 285 with p. 333 f. here); Bhagawati Aradhana with Vijayodaya ( of, pp. 442-3 with pp. 336-7 f. here); Sarvartha; siddhi of Pujyapada" (cf. pp. 92 139-40 etc. with pp 36, 82, etc. here)Commatasara with the commentary of Nemicandra (cf. pp. 326-27, 332 f,, and other contexts where the gathas of Gommatasära are quoted, pp. 72. 75
1) See verse 11 ou p. 396
2) Thanks are due to Pts. JINADAS SHASTRI and BALACHAND SEASTE: who helped me in spotting some Sanskrit quotations.
3) Ed. Bombay 1920.
4) Ed. Sholapur 1935
5) Ed. K. B. Nitavy, Kolhapur 1917.
6) Ed. Calcutta: Gandht-Haribhai-Devakarana-Jains-Granthamalā, No. 4.