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Book Review
BHAVA PAHUDA, edited by Late Ajit Prasad with an English trans
lation and a commentary and published by All India Digambar Jain Mahasabha, Aishbagh, Lucknow, 1992. Pages XV+105. Price Rs, 50.00.
The All India Digambar Jain Mahasabha, Aishbagh, Lucknow, is to be congratulated for publishing the Bhāva-påhuda of Kundakundācārya, a treatise on the discourse of soul activity with an English commentary by late Pandit Ajit Prasad who died on 17 September, 1951. Naturally the translation and the commentary were done before 1951. It was K. B. Jindal who took the labour of redrafting and recasting the whole matter and prepared a fresh manuscript for the press. Thanks for his honest and scholarly endeavour,
Though difference of opinion will never be swept away as long as the world endures, it is the general belief of the scholars that Kundakunda belonged to the first century A.D. He is a Digambar Jain and a prolific writer. It is said that the birth place of Kundakundăcărya is the town Kundakunda in Anantapur District near the Guntakul Railway Junction in modern Andhra Pradesh in the South. His writings are many. Bightyfive books are generally ascribed to him, out of which Pravacanasära, Niyamasara, Samayasära, Pancastikāya are well-known. He has also written Asta-pähudas for the Jaina monks who are reminded not to deviate from the path of rectitude and asceticism prescribed for them. Of these eight pahudas, the Bhāva-påhuda is the fifth one, others being on Darsana, Sūtra, Căritra, Bodha, Moksa, Linga and Sila.
In his preface K, B. Jindal has explained the meaning of pahuda on the basis of the discussion found in the Kasaya-pähuda. These meanings of pāhuda are suggested :
1. All that is written in Prakrit verse-form is pāhuda (pähude tti kā pirutti ? jamhå padehi phudam tamha pähudam).
2. All that is laid down by the Tirthankaras is pahudia (prakrstene Tirthankarena abhrtar prasthāpitam iti prābhrtar).
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