Jain Journal 1993 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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mention made of the extraction of kalpavyavahărau from pūrva 9,3,20 by Bhadrababu. Its designation as bshatkalpa, or vrhatsādhukalpa is unsuitable if we regard the diminutive size of the text (only 475 gr.). The conclusion (ti bemi) of udd. 4 and 6 is worthy of note.
The old bhasya in Prakrit äryäs, belonging to this text, is designated simply as kalpabhäşya, and is an enlargement of the "kappassa nijjutti," which the author of the Avasy, declares that he composed (2,7). See Keilhorn (in the Report on the Search of Sanskrit MSS. 1880-81, pp. ix,x), in reference to an old MSS. of it (Samvat 1218) and to its very curious use of letters of the alphabet to denote numerical notation.854 The commencement differs considerably from that in a palm-leaf MS. similar to this, but much younger (Saṁvat 1334), of which the ; Berlin Library possess a copy made on transparent paper. The commencement of the Berlin MS.-after prefacing the first 6 $$ of the text-is namo arahartānam, kāūņa namokkāram titthayaränar tiloyamahiyānor/ kappayvavahārāņam vakkhānavihim pavakkhami il.
XL. The sixth chedasūtram is called pañcakalpa856 in Bühler's list : sec p. 226. I have not had access to a text of this name, which is repeatedly mentioned (see pp. 448-449) both in Avi, and V., together with a jlakappa. According to the Vicārāmộtasaṁgraha, the pañcakappa is a work of Samghadasavācaka, while the jitakalpa belongs to the Jinabhadraganikşamā [478) śramaņa.858 We find in it citations from both texts. The jitakalpa is also enumerated in the Ratnasāgara, p. 507, as the sixth chedasūtram. Raj. L. Mitra, however (see p. 227 above), mentions it as the last of his "five Kalpasūtras".
In lieu of commenting upon a text of the name of pancakalpa I will at least remark on the jitakal pa, which is mentioned together with it, that a śräddhajitakalpa in 141 Prakrit gathas actually exists. It treats of the prāyaścitta, which suits the character of the chedasūtras exactly, but is referred to a definite author, Dharmaghoşa, scholar of Devendramuniśvara. In the anonymous commentary on it, it is designated as composed upantsatkalpa (!)-kalpa-vyavahāra ni śithayatijitakalpānusäreņa. In
854 On this see Bhagvånlal Indraji on the ancient Någari Numerals in the Indian
Antiquary, 6,42fg. (1877) and Bühler, ibid. p. 47 fg. 855 In Kielhorn's report, p. 94, there is mention made of a pañcakalpasutracurni by
Amradevācărya. 856. Soe above, pp. 427,430. where both texts are counted in with the painnas. There
are there several other texts ascribed to Jinabhadra. The passage reads : Jinabhao framanakyto jitakalpak, kşetrasamasah, sangrahani visesanavati ca.