Kartikeyanupreksha

Author(s): Swami Kumar, A N Upadhye, Kailashchandra Shastri
Publisher: Paramshrut Prabhavak Mandal

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INTRODUCTION
1) CRITICAL APPARATUS
The Bārasa-Anuvekkhā of Svāmi Kumāra, or as it is generally known, the Kārttikeuānupreksā, is indeed a popular work from which Jain and monks have drawn their religious inspiration; and consequently, so many manuscripts of this text, with or without the Sanskrit commentary of Subhacandra, are reported from various Mss. - collections: many more must be lying in other collections of which proper catalogues are not prepared as yet.
The Msg.' of K. anupreksā are found in the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona; in the Jaina Siddhānta Bhavana, Arrah; in the Ailaka Pannālāla Sarasvati Bhavana and Candraprabh Jaina Mandira, Bhulesvara, Bombay; in the Temples at Karanja; at Amera in Rājasthān; at Moodabidri in South Kanara; in the Lakshmisena Bhattāraka's Matha at Kolhapur; in the Jaina Gurukula at Bāhubali (Kolhapur); in the Bhattāraka's Matha at Sravaņa Belgo! (Mysore); and in the Jaina temples at Lucknow. Those at Bāhubali and Moodabidri are on palm-leaf and written in Old-Kannada characters and those at Sravana Belgola in Grantha characters. Most of the other Mss. are on paper and in Devanāgari characters.
The information noted above is gleaned from various Reports etc. Most of the Mss. from Poona, Bāhubali and Kolhapur I have personally
1) Edited by PANNALAL BAKALIVAL, Prākrit Text, Sanskrit Chāyā and Jayacandra's Hindi Com., Jaina Grantha Ratnākara Kārgālaya, Bombay 1904; Another ed., without the Sanskrit Chãyä, published by Bharatiya Jain Siddhānta Prakāśini Samsthā, Calcutta 1920, Text, Hindi Anvayārtha by MAHENDRAKUMARA JAIN, Maroth (Rajasthian) 1950.
2) H. D. VELANKAR: Jinaratna-Kośa, Poona 1944; HIRALAL: Catalogue of Sanskrit and Präkrit M88, in C. P. and Berar, Nagpur 1926. K. KASALIVAL: Āmera Šāstra Bhandūra, Jayapura ki Grantha-sūcī, Jayapur 1949, also Rajasthānake Jaina Šāstra-bhandārāki Granthasūcī, part ii, Jayapur 1954; K. BHUJABALI SHASTRI: Kannada-prāntiya Tādapatriya Granthasūci, Banaras 1948. I have used private lists for the Mss. at Kolhapur, Bāhubali and Belgol.