Book Title: Jaina Concordance And Bhasya Concordance
Author(s): K Bruhn, C B Tripathi
Publisher: K Bruhn, C B Tripathi

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________________ Jaina Concordance and Bhāşya Concordance (C) Other Svetāmbara works Bandhașattrimśikā by Abhayadeva ....... Isibhäsiyāim ........... Kșetrasamāsa by Jinabhadra .................. Samgrahaņi by Jinabhadra ........ Uttarādhyayana-sūtra-niryukti-Tikā by Säntisūri .... Vasudevahindi by Sanghadāsa Višeşanavati by Jinabhadra ............................ 36 494 657 353 770 317 Total: 2 770 1.1. 1. 11 1 (D) Digambara works (mainly "Para-Canon") Bhaktis ("Kundakunda'') .............................. 127 Kaşāyaprābhịta by Guņabhadra ....................... 245 Kundakunda (works attributed to him except Bhaktis and Prābhỉtas) ........ · 1327 Mūlācāra by Vattakera ..... 1411 Mūlārādhanā by Sivārya .... 2174 Prābhịtas (“Kundakunda") ...... 503 Total: 5 787 Grand Total: 49 805 Group (A) consists mainly of prose works, groups (B)-(D) comprise almost exclusively metrical works. However, Daśavaikālikasūtra and Uttarādhyayanasūtra are metrical works in group (A) and contain only a few prose sections. Later metrical material is represented by the seventeen prakirņakas (ten of them forming a group in a narrower sense), "Prakirņaka" being a traditional term for a number of smaller works which are with few exceptions also metrical.- The only prose work outside (A) is Sanghadāsa's Vasudevahindi. Sāntisūri's Tīkā is not included as a work in its own right but on account of the verses quoted by this author.- Verses contained in the prose commentaries on the Niryuktis and Bhāşyas have been treated on the same footing as the verses clearly belonging to the Niryuktis and Bhāșyas when there was no clear evidence that they did not belong to these two strata. However, incorporation was based exclusively on the particular edition used for the concordance work (i.e. never on more than one edition). The ascertaining of the real total of verses contained in a work is a problem to which we paid special attention. Some aspects of this problem are well-known: different editions (and in particular different "recensions" as they exist in the case of some works) present different totals, the difference ranging between one or two verses as one extreme and scores of verses as the other. Mistakes in counting, mistakes in writing (and printing) are other factors to be reckoned with. A peculiarity of the

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