Somnolent Stras Sriptural Cmmentary In Svetambara Jainism

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Author: Paul Dundas
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SCRIPTURAL COMMENTARY IN ŚVETĀMBARA JAINISM
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how Drona, whose assistance in completing the commentary on the Sthānanga Sūtra was acknowledged by Abhayadeva himself (Sthānănga Sutra, Jambavijaya's reedition, p. 352), was a temple-dwelling monk who abandoned his lax habits through having his inadequate scriptural knowledge corrected by reading Abhayadeva's commentary. See Phyllis Granoff, "Going by the Book: The Role of Written Texts in Medieval Jain Sectarian Conflicts," in Smet and Watanabe, Jain Studies in Honour of Jozef Deleu, p. 321. 60 Yugapradhānācāryagurvāvali, p. 7.. 61 PC, verse 130 and Vrddhācāryaprabandhāvali, p. 90. 02 Kharataragacchapattavalisamgraha, pp. 23 and 45. For the inappropriateness of preaching in this way, see the early seventeenth century Devavimala Gaņin, Hirasaubhāgya, ed. Shivadatta and Kashinath Sharma, Kalandri: Sri Kalandri Jain Sve, Mo. Samgh (reprint), v.s. 2041, 10.119, autocommentary. 63 For Sanatkumara, see V. M. Kulkarni, A Treasury of Jain Tales, Ahmedabad: Shardaben Chimanbai Research Council, 1994, pp. 33–4 and for Kandarika and Pundarīka, see the entry under "Pumdarīya" in Mohan Lal Mehta and K. Rishabh Chandra, Dictionary of Prakrit Proper Names: Part 1, Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Series Vol. 28, Ahmedabad, 1970, p. 459. 04 See G. P. Quackenbos, The Sanskrit Poems of Mayüra edited ... with the text and translation of Bäna's Candisataka, Columbia University Indo-Iranian Series Vol. 9, New York 1917, introduction. 65 See Yugapradhānācāryagurvāvali, p. 7 and PC, verse 128. 66 See Dundas, The Jains, p. 230. 07 See Padmanabh Jaini, "Stages in the Bodhisattva Career of the Tathāgata Maitreya," in Alan Sponberg and Helen Hardacre (ed.), Maitreya: The Future Buddha, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, p. 79. 08 This has been heroically collected by Nalini Balbir, "Tirthankaras of the Future," in M. A. Dhaky and Sagarmal Jain (ed.), Aspects of Jainology, Vol. 3: Pt. Dalsukhbhai Malvania Felicitation Volume 1, Varanasi: P. V. Research Institute, 1991, pp. 27-67. Representations of Mahapadma appear to be rare. However, at least one modern temple, in this case in Udaipur, has the future tīrthankara as its presiding image (mülnāyak). See Śrī 108 Jain Tīrth Darśanävali, Palitana: Śrī Anilbhai Gamdhī, 1990, pp. 204-5. 69 See Jan Nattier, "The Meaning of the Maitreya Myth: A Typological Analysis," in Sponberg and Hardacre (ed.), Maitreya: The Future Buddha, pp. 29-30. 70 According to Digambara Jain tradition, the great teacher Kundakunda was physically transported to Sīmandhara's presence. See Dundas, The Jains, pp. 230-1. 71 Cf. N. Ross Reat, The Salistambha Sutra, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1993, p. 3. For the connection in Buddhism between scriptural interpretation and visionary experience, see Donald S. Lopez (ed.), Buddhist Hermeneutics, p. 8 and José Ignacio Cabezón, Buddhism and Language: A Study of Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism, p. 233, note 16. 12 The specific reference is to the lost commentaries of Stlanka. Steven Collins, "On the Very Idea of the Pali Canon," Journal of the Pali Text Society, 15, 1990, pp. 96-99, has argued that the writing down of the Theravada Buddhist scriptures and the commentaries upon them, usually ascribed to the effects of the difficult times brought about by war and famine, was most likely prompted by issues of sectarian dispute and royal patronage within the Sinhalese sangha. 73 Some Prakrit poets state that they have deliberately omitted dest words from their compositions. See Kodhala, Lilāvai, ed. A. N. Upadhye, Simghr Jain Granthamala Vol. 31, Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1966, verse 41: "paviraladesisulakkham kahasu kaham divvamānusayam" and Maheśvara Sūri, Nānapamcamikahão, ed. A. S. Gopānī,