Books and Papers

Author(s): A N Upadhye
Publisher: Hindi Granth Ratnakar

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[ II 48 - This is a note on the unpublished Hindi translation of the Sukranītisāra left incomplete by Dr. Balkrishn. 48. Harişena's Dharmaparikṣā in Apabhramba (Silver
Jubilee Number, Annals of the B.O.R.I., XXII, pp. 592-608, Poona, 1942; in Hindi, Anekānta, VIII,
pp. 48-53, 90–96, Saharanpur, 1946). The following topics are discussed in this paper: (1) Various Dharma-parīkşās. (2) Dp. of Amitagati. (3) Dp. of Vșttavilāsa. (4) Dp. of Padmasāgara. (5) Apabhramsa Dp. of Harişeņa: (a) Its Mss. (b) Its extent and aim. (c) Information about Harisena, his date and the composition of Dp. (d) Predecessors of Harişena. (e) Works of Harişeņa and Amitagati compared with regard to their plot, general contents, descriptions, common expressions, etc. (f) Prākritisms in Amitagati's Dp. and the possibility of its being indebted to a Präkrit original. (g) Whether Amitagati is directly indebted to Harişena's Dp. (h) Crucial difference in the two texts. (i) Sanskrit quotations in Harisena's Dp. (j) Dhūrtākhyāna and Dp. 49. A Prākrit Grammar Attributed to Samantabhadra
(I.H.Q., XVII, pp. 511-16, Calcutta, 1942). This paper presents a critical study of the Poona Ms. of the Prākrit grammar attributed to Samantabhadra. It is conclu here that this gammar is later than Hemacandra, that it cannot be attributed to Samantabhadra, the great logician, and that there is no evidence at all to postulate any other Samantabhadra later than Hemacandra. 50. The Present Position of Prākrit, Jaina and Buddhistic
Studies and their Future (Presidential Address of the Prākrit and Buddhism Section, All-India Oriental Conference, Hyderabad, Proc. of the A.-I.O.C., VII,
pp. 1-34, Hyderabad, 1941). This is an exhaustive address which takes stock of the work done in the Jaina and Buddhistic fields of study during the earlier years. The future prospects in these fields are also discussed in details. 51. Vaddāradhaneyamba Halegannada Gadya Grantha (in
Kannada, Prabuddha Karnāțaka, 24, 2, pp. 99–109, Mysore, 1942).