Jain Journal 1999 04

SR No.: 520134
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 58
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 3 MB

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JAIN JOURNAL : Vol-XXXIII, No. 4 April 1999 Tattvārthādhigama-Sūtra by Umāsvāmin, the Samayasāra by Kundakunda, Pūjyapāda's Samadhisataka and on Samantabhadra's Ratnakaranda and Swayambhū-Stotra.22
The Digambaras of the present day have, in addition, a "secondary Canon", which might perhaps be more correctly termed a “substitute Canon", and which they also describe as “the four Vedas." This “Canon" consists of a number of important texts of later times, which are classified into four groups : (1) Prathamānuyoga, legendary wor which belong the "Purānas” (Padma-, Harivassa-, Trişaşțilaksaņa-, Maha- and Uttara-Purāna); (2) Karanānuyoga, cosmological works : Sürya-Prajñapti, Candra-Prajñapti and Jayadhavalā; (3) Drawyānuyoga, philosophical works of Kundakunda, Umāsvāti's TattvarthādhigamaSūtra with the commentaries and Samantabhadra's Aptamināmsā with the commentaries; (4) Caraṇānuyoga, ritual works: Vațţakera's Mülācāra and Trivarnācāra and Samantabhadra's RatnakarandaŚrāvakācāra.
introduction to Nyāyakumuda-Candrodaya, Prabhācandra says that he is the pupil of Akalanka and that he also wrote Prameyakamalamārtanda. According to this, Prabhācandra would have to have lived at the end of the 8th or beginning of the 9th century. As the works themselves are not
accessible to me, I am not in a position to settle the question. 22. Neither can I decide to which Prabhācandra these commentaries should
be ascribed, or the short treatise Arhatpravacana, printed in MDJG Nr. 21, p. 114. ff. Jaina authors named Prabhācandra lived in the 12th, 13th and 16th centuries too. Cf. Hiralal, Catalogue, pp. xxviii, 625 f., 629, 648, 671, 702, 704, 714. See above, p. 478 note 4.