Book Title: Anekantajay patakakhyam Prakaranam Part 2
Author(s): Haribhadrasuri, Munichandrasuri
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
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INTRODUCTION
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the Jaina monastic life. Activities of the two types of the Jaina saints form the subject-matter of section VI. Section VII deals with the fruits of religion, and the next with the description of a Tirthankara and the nature of the liberated. Thus this work is, on the whole, related with caranakaranānuyoga? as is the case with Pañcavatthuga etc.
Sūtra 3 (p. 54b) of section IV is reproduced in the svopajña com. (p. 4a?) on Yogadrstisamuccayo (v. 10). The entire work has been commented upon by Municandra Sūri. A palm-leaf Ms. of this com. dated Samvat 1181 is available.
(33) Dhuttakkhāna This is a work in Pāïya. As its very name suggests it must be a narration wherein rogues play an important role. No Ms. of it is available to me. So I cannot give any details. But this title reminds me of Dhūrtākhyāna' written in Samskrta and forming a part (pp. 32a-46a) of T'attvakaumudi, a com. on Haribhadra's Dansanasuddhi. Does this work depict in glaring terms the incredible legends of the Vaidika mythology as is the case with this Dhūrtākhyāna and Dharmaparikşās of Harişeņa, Amitagati and Vșttavilāsa? In Prabhāvakacarita (IX, 211 ) there is mention of Kitavakathānakapañcaka. Does this refer to Dhuttakkhāna? Further, does the following verse of it belong to Dhuttakkhāna?
“एवं लोइयकव्वं गद्धहलिण्डं व बाहिरे मटुं।
अन्तो फोडिजन्तं तुसुबुसमासियं सव्वं ॥ २०९॥" (43 & 43a) Pañcavatthuga and its svopajña com.*
This is a Pāïya work. It comprises 1714 perses. It can be divided into five sections, each associated with one vatthu (Sk. vastu ) out of five. They deal with (i) renunciation, (ii) daily activities of the Jaina clergy, (iii) residence in a gaccha,
1 See pp. 11, 27, 53, 114 & 154 of HCLJ. 2 This No. refers to the edition of 1940 noted on p. XXXI. 3 See p. XVI of this intro. where the date of its completion is
suggested. 4 Both have been published in D. L. J. P. Fund Series &s No. 69 in
1927 A. D. The text has been given separately at the end. The alphabetical index of the verges of the text is published in 1929 A.D. (vide p. XXV). Its Gujarati translation by Anandasagara Sūri is published in R. K. Sanasthā, Rutlam, in 1937 A,D.
