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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Kalpastra,
pretation is rather laboured, and I should, therefore, prefer to believe that the older tradition made Bhadrabâhu the last çrutakevalin, and that in later times Sthûlabhadra, of whom so many stories are told, was included in the number of those priviledged sages.
By the first half of Dharmagosha's stanza we are informed that Bhadrabâhu extracted the daçakalpas and the Vyavahâra (satra) from the ninth pûrva. In the introduction of most commentaries of the Kalpasútra ten kalpas are spoken of (Stevenson, Kalpasútra p. 3 sqq.). Therefore, by Dasakappa the Kalpasútra is most probably intended. The Vyavahârasútra is one of the chedas, a class of the âgamas. (Bühler, Report on Sanscrit MSS. 18721873, p. 12.) In the vžitti of the Rishimandalasůtra a longer list of Bhadrabâhu's works is given.
Daçâvaikâlikasy' Acârâñga-Sûtrakṣitâñgayoḥ | Uttaràdhyayana-Sûryaprajñaptyoḥ Kalakasya ca || Vyavahâra-Rshibhâshit-Avaçyakânâm ivâḥ (?) kramåt Daçâçrutâkhyaskandhasya niryuktîr daça so 'tanot || tathâ 'nyâm bhagavâınç cakre samhitâm Bhâdrabâhavîm.
"He composed the ten niryuktis, namely the (niryuktis) of the Daçâvaikâlika, Acârâīga, Sûtrakṣitânga , Uttaradhyayana, Súryaprajñapti, Kalaka (?), Vyavahâra, Rishibhâshita, Avaçyaka, and then (itaḥ kramât) that of the Daçãçrutaskandha; the venerable (Bhadrabâhu) also composed an other samhitâ, the Bhadrabâhavi.” Dr. Bühler has already noticed that the Niryuktis of the añgas are attributed to Bhadrabâhu (1. C. p. 6.), and he has succeeded in procuring copies of the Acârâñganiryukti and the Oghaniryukti. In the sequel it will appear probable that Bhadrahîhu did not compose the Nirvakti of, but the Dacâcrutaskandha itself. That work is sometimes mistaken for the Kalpasûtra. Of the Samhita we shall speak below. Besides these works, the Uvasaggaharastotra is attributed to Bhadrabâhu in a gâthâ found in the kathânakas of the Kalpasútra:
uvasaggahara thuttam kâiņam jeņa saingha-kallâņam |
karuņa-pareņa vihiam
sa Bhaddabâhu gurû jayau || “Victory to Bhadrabâhusvâmin who by composing the Uvasaggahara-stotra bestowed, out of pity, happiness on the sañgha”.
I subjoin, in the note, the text and translation of that stotra which, if really of Bhadrabâhu's composition, is the oldest specimen of the now extensive literature of Jaina hymns ").
uvasaggaharam Pâsam Pâsam vamdami kamma-ghana-mukkam | visahara-visa-ninnâsam mamgala-kallâna-âvâsam ||1| visahara-phulimga-mamtam kamthe dhârei jo saya manuo tassa, gaha-roga-mari-duttha-jarà jamti uvasâmam |2 || citthau dûre mamto tujjha paņâmo vi bahuphalo hoi |
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