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KUVALAYAMALA
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THE KUVALAYAMĀLĀ AND MODERN SCHOLARSHIP
It is necessary and interesting to review the studies of modern scholars.in connection with the Kuvalayamālā mainly with reference to some of its significant passages. The attention of modern scholars was attracted towards this work only after the Ms. P (No. 154 of 1881-82) was secured for the collection of Mss. of the Government of Bombay, then belonging to the Deccan College, Poona, and now in the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona.1
In the Jaina Granthavali2 there are references to the Prakrit Kuvalayamālā of Uddyotanasuri and Sanskrit Kuvalayamālā of Ratnaprabha, the sources being the Brhaṭṭippaṇikā and the Deccan College lists. The Ms. of the former in the Deccan College (KANTIVIJAYAJI?) and of the latter in Cambay and Ahmedabad are mentioned. The attribution of the Kuvalayamālā to Indrasuri is based on a wrong reading in an extract given by P. PETERSON from the Santināthacarita of Devacandra.3
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The Kuvalayamālā-kathā, a stylistic Sanskrit digest of the Prakrit work of Uddyotana by Ratnaprabhasūri (c. middle of the 13th century A. D.), was edited by Muni CHATURAVIJAYA from three Mss. and was published in 1916.* prastāvanā (in Sanskrit) of this volume introduces most exhaustively, for the first time, the earlier Prakrit work of Uddyotana quoting its significant extracts from the Poona Ms. which correspond to the following passages in this edition; p. 282, l. 6 to the end of § 432 omitting a few verses vamdami savva-siddhe to [pani] vayāmi; p. 173, 1. 31 to p. 174, l. 6; p. 1, II. 2 to 8; and p. 3, l. 14 to p. 4, l. 14. A bare outline of the story is indicated; and significantly enough it is stated that Haribhadra, who is styled as bhava-viraha, is earlier than Uddyotana and not at all a contemporary of Siddharși, the author of the Upamitibhava-prapañcā-kathā. The extracts given in this Introduction attracted the attention of various scholars who used some of these references in their studies.
It was in 1916, the Kāvya-mīmāṁsā of Rājasekhara,5 edited by C. D. DALAL and R. A. SHASTRY was published; and in its notes were given some extracts from the Kuvalayamālā, based on the Ms. P and corresponding to our text, p. 3, l. 18 to p. 4, l. 2, which attracted the attention of some other scholars, towards the Kuvalayamālā.
1 H. D. VELANKAR: Jinaratnakosa p. 94, (Poona 1944) gives reference to KIELHORN III, A list of the third collection of Dr. KIELHORN known as Collection of 1881-1882. Dr. P. K. GODE kindly informs me that the entry regarding Ms. No. 154 of 1881-82 stands thus (p. 207): "[Name] Kuvalayamālā (in Präkrit) [Author ] Uddyotanasūri, leaves 183, slokas 10,000, No. 154 of 1881-82."
2 Published by Sri Jaina Svetambara Conference, Bombay 1909, pp. 222.
3 A Fifth Report of operations in search of Sanskrit Mss. in the Bombay Circle, Bombay 1896, p. 73.
4 Śrī-Jaina Atmananda Sabha, Bhavanagar 1916, No. 54. A revised and critical edition of this text is included in this volume.
5 Gaekwad's Oriental Series, No. 1. Baroda, 1916; p. 124 of the Re-issue, Baroda 1924; pp. 204-5, 3rd edition, Baroda 1934.
6 N. PREMI: Padmacaritam (Bombay 1928), Intro. p. 2; A. N. UPADHYE: Annals of the B. O. R. I., XIV, i-ii, p. 62, also the Varangacarita (Bombay 1938), Intro. pp. 9-10.
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