Book Title: Anekantajay patakakhyam Prakaranam Part 2
Author(s): Haribhadrasuri, Munichandrasuri
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
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XVIII
INTRODUCTION
tenth verse. It thus differs from Saddarsanasamuccaya and the like which come under the second group.
Sixteen works of Haribhadra are characterized by the word viraha'. AJP is one of them, the rest being Nos. 7, 10, 24, 25, 29, 30, 43a, 45, 54, 55, 61, 68, 75, 76 & 82. The case of No. 80 is doubtful, for, in some of its Mss., this word is not given.
Out of his works AJP is the only work having a name ending in patākā. Leaving aside Dharmabindu, Yogabindu and Lokabindu which end in bindu, Anekāntasiddhi, Atmasiddhi, Dharmalābhasiddhi, Paralokasiddhi, Bhāvanasiddhi and Sar. vajñasiddhi which end in siddhi, and Sastravärtāsamuccaya and Şaddarsanasamuccaya which end in samuccaya, the rest of his works have no common ending word.
It is said at times that the names of some of the Bauddha works have suggested the corresponding names to Haribhadra for his works. For instance, the names like Hetubindu and Nyayabindu were instrumental in the naming of Dharmabindu and Yogabindu, and that of Nyāyapravesa in the naining of Anekānta vādapraveśa. Whether this conjecture is right or wrong, it does not affect the present work until a work having the same ending is noted in the early literature of the Bauddhas and is proved to be known to our author. Under these circumstances, I am led to believe that our author has been original in giving the name to AJP- the name which throws ample light on the subject it deals with.
Over and above these four specialities there are some more. One of them distinguishes AJP from Sodasaka, Visavīsiyā. Pañcāsaga etc., of which the names are associated with corresponding numbers.
Another speciality of AJP is that it is not a com. on a work of some one else as is the case with Avasyakațīkā etc. Further, it is a work having two commentaries by the author
1 Names of some of those where this word does not occur, are:
Avašyakourtti, Prajñāpanāvyākhyā, Lokatattvanirnaya and Saddaršanasamuccaya. From & cursory glance at the list of the Jaina works, I find that Āradhanāpatākā is & work that ends in 'patākā'. Amongst the nonJaina works on erotics there is one named as Gunapatākā. A Note on this is published in The Indian Historical Quarterly" (Vol. XVIII, pt. II, pp. 166-167).
