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fafaemr ga gran : HTTDIENIT 27674 2. Kalyānakirti's Anu prekse
Kalyäņakīrti (A. D. 1439) has written Jñīnacandrābhyudaya, Ki man kathe, Cinmaya-cintamani, Nigakumira-carite, Tatvabhedāştaka, Ananda-kand ali, and anu prekşe in Kannada and Jina-yajna-phalodaya, Yasod hara-carita and a work on medicine in Sanskrit.
There are 76 verses in Kalyāṇakirti's anu prekşe. He says that he wrote this anu prekse for boys to read and so he stands first among the poets who wrote children's literature. He is influenced by Kundakunda's Bi rasa-aņuvekkhā and has brought its meaning into Kannada.
Two more anu prekşā works have come to my notice. They are yet in the manuscript stage. The manuscripts of these works are in the library of Jainadharmaśāla, Moodabidre and a microfilm of it is in the microfilm library of Institute of Kannada studies, Mysore University. Both these anu preksā works have thirteen verses each. No information about the author and other things could be known from the manuscripts.
Commentaries
(i) Viranandi (c. A.D. 1153) in the 10th chapter of his Acärasāra' has written on anu preksă in 12 Sanskrit verses in Särdülavikridita metre. Viranandi has written an auto-commentary on ācāraszra in Kannada. Though ācārasāra is not yet published with Kannada commentary, the anu prekşā part of it has come to light. This part has some how entered into some of the inanuscripts of Band huvarma's Jiva-Sambodhane'. In Jivasambodhane at the beginning of each anupreksā there is a corresponding vrtta with commentary as an introduction which is taken from Ācārasāra, In the printed text of Jivasombod hane' we have got vsttas with Kannada commentary.
(ii) We have manuscripts of Kannada Commentary on Kundakunda's Bārasa-anuvekkhā'. Dr. A. N. Upadhye had made a mention of one such manuscript in his introduction to 'Kirtikeyānuprekşi' (P. 21). This Ms. is in the Laxmi sena Matha, Kolhapur. But he has not mentioned the name of the commentator.
(iii) I have seen a paper-manuscript of Birasa-anuvekkhā's commentary in Kannada in the manuscript library of Bāhuvali Aśrama near Kolhapur. There are 90 gāhās in this Ms. and there is no mention the commentator.
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