Kuvalayamala and Modern Scholarship

Author(s): A N Upadhye
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The Kuvalayamālā and Modern Scholarship
A. N. UPADHYE
THE Kuvalayamālā of Uddyotanasuri (A.D. 779) is an important Prakrit Campü, having a distinctive position in Indian literature. The Prakrit text is critically edited by me and lately published in the Singhi Jaina Series, No. 45, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavana, Bombay 1959. 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 deposited in the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona. (H. D. VELANKAR: Jinaratnakośa, Poona 1944, p. 94, gives reference to KIELHORN III, A List of the third Collection of 1881-1882. Dr. P. K. GODE kindly' informed me that the entry regarding Ms. No. 154 of 1881-82 stands thus, p. 207: "[Name] Kuvalayamála (in Prakrit) [Author] Uddyotanasūri, Leaves 133, slokas. 10,000, No. 154 of 1881-82.")
In the Jaina Granthavali (published by Sri Jaina Svetämbara Conference, Bombay 1909, p. 222) there are references to the Prakrit Kuvalayamála of Uddyotanasuri and the Sanskrit Kuvalayamālā of Ratnaprabha, the sources of the information being the Brhattippaṇikā and the Deccan College Lists. The Ms. of the former in the Deccan