Agam 39 Chhed 06 Mahanishith Sutra

Author(s): Punyavijay, Rupendrakumar Pagariya, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Granth Parishad

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MAHĀNISĪHA STUDIES AND EDITION IN GERMANY
91.12 Related Jaina Texts 1.12.1 A passage from the Mahānisiha (III. $25: MNSt.B,pp.62-3) was discussed by Dharmasāgara-sūri in his Kupakşa-kausikâditya'. Schubring has, therefore, used, besides its Berlin Ms.(Verz. #1976), also Weber's essay on and R.G. Bhandarkar's analysis of this work, see MNSt.A,p.6 with fn.1, etc. MNA III.825 was also citi by Jñānasāgara in his avacūri on Caityavandana-bhāsya, vs.30, by Devendra. 1.12.2 Dharmadāsa-gani's Upadeśa-mäla' has many verses in common with the MNA, hence Schubring and others have used its edition by L.P. Tessitori, 1912; equally Haribhadra's Upadeśa-pada (see JRK,p.48; publ. Bhāvnagar, 1900) was utilized. 1.12.3 Ratnasekhara cites in his Ācāra-pradipa (composed in samvat 1516, see JRK,p.22(i)) long extracts from the MNA, Chap.III; its Ahmedabad (? Bombay samvat 1958.) edition was used by both, Schubring (MNSt.A,p.50) and Deleu (MNSt.B,p.156). 1.12.4 An anonymous book in Gujarāti was used by W. Schubring in MNSt.A-B-C: sumati nägila caritra tathā samjatasarjat ane gaccha-kugaccha-no adhikār, Ahmedabad, samvat 1933. 1.12.5 He similarly consulted the Mss. (and the appendix to the Atmānanda-Grantharatnamālā,No.67.1918) of the Susasha-caritra by Devendra-sūri', see MNSt.A.p.48 (with fn.1); Lehre,p.78; and MNSt.B,p.74. 1.12.6 The Abhidhäna-Rajendra-Kośa (ARK) quotes often from the MNA. These quotations have been talen into consideration by Schubring, Hamm and Deleu.
This work, composed in samvat 1629, is also called: Kupakşa-kausika-sahasrakirana, Kuvakkha-kosikasahasa-kirana, ctc. Scc JRK.p.270 s.v. Pravacana-pariksā. Dharmasagara cited and discussed other passages of the MNA, too.
"IN: Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (SBAW), 1882, pp.793-814.
Report...1883-84 by R.G. Bhandarkar, pp.144-155. Scc below (1.16.
8 Sce JRK,pp.49-51. Of the Upadesa-nālā we have at hand its cdition by L.P.Tessitori (Giornale della Socicta Asiatica Italiana, 25.1912, pp.167-249) and also its publication with the Doghaffi-vrtti of Ratnaprabhasūri cdited by acārya Hemasāgara-suri (sri Ananda-Hcma-Jaina-Granthamälä, No.6.1958).
Schubring opincs that the Susadha-caritra of Devendra-suri (Pkt, 519 āryās) is an adaptation of MNA, VIII. He gives, therefore, a synopsis of this worl: on the basis of four Mss. (2 in Berlin, 1 cach from Vicnna and Poona) and comparcs both texts critically. (JRK,pp.447-8: Susadha(sic!)-katha, -caritra (1) + (11),
Suşama-kathā rcfer most probably to this work of Devendra-suri.)