Jain Journal 2003 07

SR No.: 520151
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 2003
Total Pages: 64
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 4 MB

Page 36

RAMKRISHNA BHATTACHARYA:A PROBABLE JAIN SOURCE
It is futile to provide for the travellers when they start. Their gratification on the way would be boundlesss by the offering of srāddha at home.
(Trans, mine) The addition of two new lines (4 cd and 5 cd) makes more cogent reading and much better sense. In place of nine verses of two lines each and a verse having three lines (twenty-one lines in all), we now have ten verses of two lines each and a verse having three lines (twenty-three lines in all).
Unfortunately Abhyankar does not specify from which new MS or MSS he got these two additional lines. In his short exposition he refers to a couple of verses from the Vişnupurāna (3.18.25-26). The second one is a variant of SDS, Ch. 1, lines 114-15 (= v. 3 in the last set of verses). However, Abhyankar failed to notice that the first additional line, viz. nirvānasya pradipasya, etc. (line 117 in his ed. = 4 cd) also occurs in the Prabodha-candrodaya (PC). 2.21.7 In fact the reading given in SDS tallies with that of PC. Most probably Sayaņamādhava (S-M) got this verse from PC, as he might have got vv. 2 and 3 from other sources. 8
Fortunately, the verse (PC, 2.21) also occurs in the works of two Jain savants, Hemacandra (1089-1172) and Mallisena (early thirteenth century). In Hemacandra's auto-commentary on his Yogaśāstra (YS), the verse runs as follows :
mrtānāmapi jantūnām yadi trptirbhavediha/ nirvāṇasya pradīpasya snehaḥ samvardhayecchikhāmo//
This varies a little from the reading found in PC and SDS (yadi trptirbhaveiha, 'if it causes gratification here' in place of șrāddham cet tịptikāranam in b), but otherwise the readings are all alike.
Mallisena quotes this verse in his comentary on Hemacandra's AYDV. The reading cited by him is different from Hemacandra's but it is much closer to that of PC. There is only one minor variant in citannirvānapradipasya for nirvāṇasya pradipasya.''
In spite of these variations, it cannot be claimed for certain that Hemacandra and Mallisena got the verse from two different sources. Most probably they were quoting from memory which may account for the differences in their readings.