Jain Journal 2004 01

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

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JAIN JOURNAL: VOL-XXXVIII, NO. 3 JAN. 2004
it was Haribhadrasuri who wrote Anekantajayapatākā to establish the philosophy of manysidedness for judging a thing. Later, of course, there were many Jain scholars who had written on this philosophy following Haribhadrasūri. There were some very powerful authors on both sides, but it was the Digambaras who had contributed a lot to the Anekantavada philosophy. It explains how an object or idea can be judged from all possible angles of vision. It is a fact worth noting that according to the Jains a substance has two opposite characters---permanence and change, universality and particularity, similarity and dissimilarity. The Jain authors like Samantabhadra, Akalanka, Vidyānātha and Yasovijaya laid a firm foundation of Anekāntavāda and established a grand superstructure of Anekanta doctrine. The Anekāntajayapatākā of Haribhadrasuri is a standard work on the subject and is the most solid contribution to the treasure house of Jain philosophy.
Haribhadra was the first to write commentaries on the Jaina Agama texts of which again Avassaya and Dasaveāliya have come down to us. In Haribhadra's commentaries many interesting tales are found. In his Sanskrit commentries he retained the narratives in their original Prakrit form. Hemacandra has taken some of his stories in his Sthavīrāvali-carita. Haribhadra is also the author of Unadeśapada and 32 Aṣṭakāni. In his famous book on general philosophy Şad-darśana-samuccaya, he mainly deals with Nyaya, Vaiseṣika, Samkhya, Jaimini and Buddhism, and lastly on Jainism in a short section. Loka-tattva-nirnaya is his another philosophical text in Sanskrit verses, where also he has discussed other systems including Jainism. He wrote a commentary on Umāsvāmī's Tattvärthadhigama-sutra. He also wrote a commentary on the Nyayapravesa of the Buddhist Dinnaga. His other works are Yogabindu, Yoga-drsti-samuccaya, Dharmabindu etc. All these works deal with the doctrines of Jainism. Jacobi mentions some other works of Haribhadra. They are Anekānta-jaya-patākā with his own commentary, Šāstra-vārttāsamuccaya, Soḍaśa-prakarana. Haribhadra's Samaraicca-kaha is a prototype of Tarangavati and is a Prakrit prose romance. Haribhadra also wrote a satire Dhurtākhyāna by name in five ākhyānas (stories) during