Jain Journal 2003 07

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

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JAIN JOURNAL: VOL-XXXVIII, NO. 1 JULY 2003
A PROBABLE JAIN SOURCE FOR A VERSE IN SARVA-DARŠANA-SAMGRAHA, CHAPTER I
Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
A verse in the editio princeps of Sarva-darsana-saṁgraha (SDS), Ch.1 runs as follows:
mrtānāmapi jantūnām śrāddham cet trptikāranam/ gacchatāmiha jantūnām vyartham pātheyakalpanam'//
If the śrāddha produces gratification to beings who are dead. Then here too, in the case of travellers when they start, it is needless to give provisions for the journey.?
īswarachandra Vidyāsāgara, the first editor of SDS, could procure only five manuscripts (MSS) for collation. Apparently all the five contained the same reading. Two large Sanskrit dictionaries, the Sabdakalpadruma and the Vācaspatyam, quote this reading along with other verses from SDS. Subsequent editions (reprints) of SDS published by Tārānātha Tarkavācaspati (1871), Jivananda Vidyāsāgara (1889) and Mahesacandra Păl (1894) adopted the same reading.
Hari Nārāyaṇ Āpte brought out a new edition of SDS in 1906. It supplied the last chapter not found in the MSS available to Iswarachandra Vidyāsāgara. However, as regards the verse under discussion (v. 4 of the last section), Apte's edition does not differ in any respect from the editio princeps.'
It was in Vasudeva Shāstrī Abhyankar's edition of SDS (1924) that two additional lines are first found. The second line of the earlier reading (4 cd) becomes the first line of the next verse (5 ab) and two new lines, 4 cd and 5 cd are added. The two verses now read as follows:
mrtānāmapi jantūnām srāddham cet trptikāraṇam/ nirvāṇasya pradipasya snehaḥ samvardhayecchikhām// gacchatāmiha jantūnām vyartham pātheyakalpanam/ gehasthakytasrāddhena pathi trptiravāritā If the srāddha produces gratification even to the dead beings, oil would then increase the flame of an extinguished lamp.