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is concerned, Subhacandra has before him almost a definite text of which, it is his object to expound and elaborate the meaning, in its manifold ramifications. As a rule, he explains in Sanskrit the Prākrit text, very rarely with different readings in view (as on p. 245), giving detailed paraphrase in the form of questions and answers which are useful to bring out the grammatical relations in a sentence. Now and then he quotes parallel and elucidatory verses in Sanskrit, Prākrit and Apabhraṁsa in his commentary; and their bulk increases, almost beyond limit, whenever dogmatical exposition is elaborated. The commentary on the Dharma- and Loka-anuprekşās is a good instance to the point. What is stated or even hinted in the text by Kumāra Subhacandra elaborates not only by quoting verses or sūtras from works like the Gómmatasära, Tattvārtha-sūtra, Dravyasaṁgraha, Jñānārņava etc. but also by adding quite lengthy excerpts from their commentaries. These long passages, full of enumerations, classifications etc. are made almost a part and parcel of his commentary which becomes often mechanical and para-pusta, i. e., swollen by the stuff from others. It is not unlikely that some of these passages were added later by Lakşmicandra who, under the prasāda of Subhacandra, is said to have expanded this Vrtti. To a pious reader, however, this commentary is a blessing, because it brings together information from various sources.
ii) Its Striking Indebtedness to Others The sources used by Subhacandra are obvious to us from his quotations (which are duly listed by me, with their sources wherever they could be spotted', pp. 449-65) from the works, as well as authors, mentioned by him (pp. 469-70 ) and from discussions, the counterparts of which could be traced in earlier works. As far as I can detect, Subhacandra has drawn major portions of extracts, sometime word to word, from the Mülācāra of Vattakera with Vasunandi's commentary (cf. vol. I, p. 285 with p. 333 f. here); Bhagavati Ārādhana with Vijayodaya* (cf. pp. 442-3 with pp. 336–7 f. here); Sarvārtha; siddhi of Pūjyapāda (cf. pp. 92 139-40 etc. with pp 36, 82, etc. here )Gõmmatasāra with the commentary of Nemicandra (cf. pp. 326-27, 332 f., and other contexts where the găthās of Gómmațasāra are quoted, pp. 72. 75
1) See verse 1l on p. 396
2) Thanks are due to Pts. JINADAS SHASTRI and BALACHAND SHASTRI who helped me in spotting some Sanskrit quotations.
3 ) Ed. Bombay 1920. 4) Ed. Sholapur 1935 5) Ed. K. B. NITAVE, Kolhapur 1917. 6) Ed. Calcutta : Gandhi-Haribhāi-Devakaraņa-Jaina-Granthamälā. No. 4.
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