Bruhat Katha kosha

Author(s): Harishen Acharya,
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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INTRODUCTION
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Ārādhană-prakaraņa: There are two texts of this name, one by Yaśoghoșa and the other by Somasūri containing 61 găthās.
Arādhanā-mālā (usually called Samvegarangaśālā): It is a bulky Prākrit work which, according to the Jaina Granthāvali, contains 10053 slokas. It deals with Ārādhanā in its four principal and f subsidiary topics. Some of the găthās are written in a fluent style. The author is Jinacandrasūri, the pupil of Jineśvarasūri. He composed this Malā at the request of his junior fellow-student (satīrthya), Abhayadeva, the famous Vrttikāra, after collecting the expressions from the Mūlasruta like a florist picking flowers from a park. It was finished in Saṁyat 1125 (-57 = 1068 A. D.). It is said to have been revised by Tinavallabha, the pupil of Abhayadeva. The doctrinal discussion includes along with it some illustrative stories as well. This work is respectfully mentioned by many authors. Some of the significant words from the opening găthā of the Bhaga. Arādhanā appear to be scattered in some of the opening gātbās of this book (Nos. 5, 14); secondly, some of the names of the subsidiary topics are common to both the works; and lastly, a găthã (No. 800), which is introduced with the phrase gurur āha, is nearly identical with gătbā No. 21 from the Bha. Ā. It is not unlikely, if Jinacandra used Sivakoti's text;
it is premature to be dogmatic on this point. From what little I have seen it appears to me, however, that a comparative study of these two works would give interesting results.
Aradhanāsăra: This Präkrit text of Devasena, who finished his Darśanasära in Samvat 990, contains 115 găthās and deals with fourfold Aradhana. There is a good Sanskrit commentary on this text by Ratnakīrti who gives a few details about himself in his Prāśasti. His date is not settled, but a critical study of his quotations may help us to put an earlier limit for his age. After a casual survey I find that he quotes from the Atmānu. śāsana of Guņabhadra, Samayasāra-kalasa of Amrtacandra, Iñānārņaya of Subhacandra, Sāmāyika of Amitagati and Ekibhāya of Vădirāja etc.
There are many other texts dealing with Arādhană; but we do not know much about their authors and contents; so I shall simply note their names with scanty details: 1) Arādhanāratna by Devabhadra. 2) Arādhanā. vidhi. 3) Arādhanāśāstra of Devabhadra, the pupil of Abhayadeva noted above (possibly identical with -ratna ?).* 4) Arādhanā-sattaris by Kula. prabha in Prakrit. 5-8) Ārādhanāśāras of Ravicandra, Jayasekhara, Nāgasena and Lokācārya. 9) Ārādhanāstava (of Amitagati or Āsādhara?). 10) Ārā. dhan..svarūpa.
1 Catalogue of Mss. at Pattan vol. I, p. 65. 2 Jesalmere Catalogue, pp. 38, 21 (No. 183 ); only a portion is printed so far
in the ed.: Sri Samvegarangaśālā, part I (gāthās 3053 with Sanskrit Chāyā)
Surat 1924. 3 Mānikachandra D. Jaina Granthamälā, No. 6, Bombay Samvat 1973, 4 Desai: Jaina Sāhityano Itihāsa, p. 237. 5 Peterson Reports III, p. 13. 6 See Mülārādhanā (Sholapur 1935), pp. 1865 eto.