Agam 12 Upang 01 Aupapatik Sutra Ovaiyam Terapanth

Author(s): Tulsi Acharya, Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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The fact regarding the dissimilarity of readings in the manuscripts of Jivajivabhigama has also been pointed out by Santicandra, the commentator of Jambudvipaprajñapti.
Upadhyaya Santicandra has quoted the text about the description of the Kalpavrksa from Jivājīvābhigama. In describing the fourth Kalpavrksa be has quoted the reading Kanaga-nigarana" which he explains as 'the heap of gold." In the Vṛtti of Jivājīvābhigama the term 'Kanaganigaranam' has been explained as 'Kanakasya nigaranam, kanaka-nigaranam, galitaṁm, kanakamiti bhavaḥ". The change in script has led to change in reading. We find the reading "Kūḍāgāraftha" in some manuscripts. In the printed editions as well as the hand-written copy we find the reading 'Katägärädyāni". It has not been explained in the Vrtti of Jivajivabhigama. Of course, it has been explained in the Vrtti of "Jumbudvipaprajñapti"-"Kajäkäreṇa-sikharākṛtyädhyant."
Acarya Malayagiri has himself mentioned the variant readings of the manuscripts. The verses, which the commentator quotes from other sources, have been included in the original text in comparatively recent manuscripts."
In the Vriti we find the mention of the commentary on Jambudvipa-prajñaptl. The commentators of Jambudvipa-prajñapti definitely belong to a period later than that of Malayagiri. Hence it is a matter worthy of investigation whether this mention is an interpolation or whether Malayagiri had really got with him some old commentary of Jambudvipa-prajñapti.
At some places the vṛtti contains a lot of matter worth deliberation. The commentator has explained the term "Sirivacchu as śrivṛkşa. Looking to the context it should be Srivatsa."
1. Jambudvipaprajñapti Vrtti. p. 108:
atra cadhikāre jiväbhigamasutradarse kvacidadhikapadam api dṛśyate tattu vṛttavatyākhyatam svayam paryalocyamanamapi na narthapradamiti na likhitam, ten tat sampradayāda vagantavyam, tamantarena samyak päthaśuddherapi kartumasakyatvaditi.
1. Jambudvipa Vr. patra 102: kanakanikaraḥ suvarparāśih.
2. Jivajivabhigama, Vr. p. 267.
3. Jambudvipaprajñapti Vr. p. 107: See the footnote of Jiväjivabhigama, 3/594.
4. (a) Ibid. Vr. p. 321:
iba bahudha sūtreşu păţhabhedāḥ parametāvāneva sarvatrapyartho narthabhedantaramityetadvyäkhyānusärena sarvepyanugantavya na mogghavyamiti.
(b) Ibid. Vr. p. 376:
"iha bhūyan pustakeşu vācanābhedo galitāni ca sūtrāņi bahuşu pustakeşu tato yathavasthitavacanābhedapratipattyartham galitasūtroddharaṇārtham caivam sugamanyapi
vivriyante.
5. Ibid, Vrtti p. 331, 333, 334, 334; 3/820, 830, 834, 837: The footnotes are worth seeing.
6. väbhigama, Vitti p. 382:
kvacit simhādinām varnanam drsyate tad bahuşu pustakeşu na drştamityupekşitam, avasyam cettadvyäkhyaaena prayojanam tarhi Jambudvipaprajñapli tīkā paribhavaniyā tatra savistaram tadvyäkhyānasya kṛtatva.
7. Ibid., vrtti p. 271:
"Srivkapakitap-ladcaitam vrksɔ yeşim te sivrksatanchita vaksasab."