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Before proceeding, the effort of Mr. Khushaladas Jagajivanadașa, the editor of Gujarati translation of Aṣṭaka-prakaraṇa brought out by Mahavira Jaina Vidyalaya, Bombay, 1941, must be acknowledged. Though he did not find out the sources of all the extracts and with full details yet his effort is commendable.
A study of these extracts etc. reveals that Haribhadra in this text has cited from or referred to Valmiki Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata, Manusmṛti, Viṣṇusmṛti, Śivadharmottarapurāṇa, etc. Brahminical texts, Acārāngasūtra, Kalpasūtra, Avaśyakaniryukti, Nyāyāvatāra and Viseṣāvasyaka Bhāṣya among Jaina texts and Buddhist text in Samskṛta, Lańkāvatārasūtra.
As already mentioned Vedic text Śivadharmottarapurāṇa and Buddhist text Larkāvatārasūtra have been explicitly referred to. Sources of the remaining quotations etc. have to be traced out. We find, in this regard that the first quotation occurs in the fourth Agnikārikāṣṭakam. Haribhadra in this Aṣṭaka maintains that the practice of Sacrificial fire (Agnikārikā ), resorted to by devotees of heretic traditions, bestows worldly achievements only. The ultimate goal of emancipation, attained by knowledge and meditation, can never be realised by it (Sacrificial fire ). The verses: one containing his (Haribhadra's )" proposition and other quoted from Śivadharmottarapurana to prove his point, are as
follows
dīkṣā mokṣārthamākhyātā jñānadhyānaphalaṁ ca sa. śāstra ukto yataḥ sūtram śivadharmottare hyadaḥ. 2/4 pūjayā vipulaṁ rājyamagnikāryeṇa sampadaḥ. tapaḥ pāpaviśudhyarthaṁ jñānaṁ dhyānaṁ ca muktidam. 3/4
That is worship and Sacrificial fire ( Agnikārikā) yield worldly pleasures like statehood and riches only. Penances eliminate sins, salvation is the outcome of knowledge and meditation. Haribhadra, in order to glorify the penance, knowledge and meditation, and to denounce the worship and sacrificial fire, has cited the verse from Śivadharmottarapurāṇa, probably another name of Śivapurāṇa.
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