Kartikeyanupreksha

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

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INTRODUCTION
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order of enumeration of the twelve bhāvanās and reference to Dharma by uttame ya gune indicate that Hemacandra is following the Maranasamāhi. The main theme for the author is bhava-bhavan', while the discussion about other Bhāvanās is incidental : that explains how and why 322 gathās out of the total of 531, are devoted to the exposition of samsāra-bhā, in which the miseries etc. in the four grades of existence are fully elaborated, and why the title of the text is Bhava-bhāvanā. The author shows more influence of the Ardhamāgadhi canon than that of the T.-sūtra : some of his expressions and descriptions can be traced to the canonical stratum. In handling certain similes (see Nos. 12, 76-79 ) etc., his style has a flourish and is quite striking. Some of his descriptions are heavy with long compounds. Now and then he has a veiled attack against other schools of thought (No. 126); and in some places he is enthusiastically eloquent about Jainism (Nos. 474 f., 480 f.). In his exposition he refers to a number of model tales such as those of Nemi (5), Bala (25), Nanda etc. (53), Meghakumara (228), Sukosala (430) etc. : some of them are found in the canon and some in the commentaries on the same. Hemacandra's exposition of bhava-bhāvanā has become so much all-pervasive that he brings under it what other authors have included under other Bhāvanās. By way of illustration the gāthās on Anitya-bhāvanā are reproduced below (Nos. 11-25): ।
सम्वप्पणा अणिचो नरलोओ ताव चिट्ठउ असारो । जीयं देहो लच्छी सुरलोयम्मि वि अणिञ्चाई ॥ नहपुलिणवालुयाए जह विरइयमलियकरितुरंगेहिं । घरजकप्पणाहि य बाला कीलंति तुटुमणा ॥ तो सयमवि अमेण व भग्गे एयम्मि अहव एमेव । अन्ननदिसिं सब्वे वयंति तह चेव संसारे ॥ घररजविहवसयणाइएसु रमिऊण पंच दिहयाई। वचंति कहिंचि वि निययकम्मपलयानिलुक्खित्ता ॥ अहवा जह सुमिणयपावियम्मि रजाइ इट्टवत्थुम्मि । खणमेगं हरिसिजति पाणिणो पुण विसीयंति ॥ कइवयदिणलद्धेहिं तहेव रजाइएहिं तूसंति । विगएहिं तेहिं वि पुणो जीवा दीणत्तणमुवेति ॥ रुप्पकणयाइ वत्थु जह दीसइ इंदयालविजाए । खणदिटुनटुरूवं तह जाणसु विहवमाईयं ॥ संझब्भरायसुरचावविन्भमे घडणविहडणसरूवे । विहवाइवत्थुनिवहे किं मुज्झसि जीव जाणतो॥ पासायसालसमलंकियाइं जइ नियसि कत्थइ थिराई । गंधवपुरवराई तो तुह रिद्धी वि होज थिरा ॥ धणसयणबलुम्मत्तो निरस्थयं अप्पगविओ भमसि । जं पंचदिणाणुवरिं न तुमं न धणं न ते सयणा ॥ भवणाई उववणाई सयणासणजाणवाहणाईणि । निश्चाई न कस्सइ नवि य कोइ परिरक्खिओ तेहिं ॥ मायापिईहिं सहवडिएहि मित्तेहिं पुत्तदारेहिं । एगयओ सहवासो पीई पणो वि य अणियो ।
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5) तम्हा घरपरियणसयणसंगयं सयलदुक्खसंजणयं । मोत्तं अट्टज्झाणं भावेज सया भवसरूवं । भवभावणा य एसा पढिज्जए बारसह मज्झम्मि eto.
6) The Svopajña com. narrates the life of Nemi, through nine births, in 4042 Präkrit gāthās : a veritable poem by itself!