Mahanisiha Studies And Edition In Germany

Author(s): Chandrabhal Tripathi
Publisher: Chandrabhal Tripathi

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MAHĀNISĪHA STUDIES AND EDITION IN GERMANY
this work, see MNSt.A,p.6 with fn.1, etc. MNA III.825 was also cited by Jñānasāgara in his avacūri on Caityavandana-bhāsya, vs.30, by Devendra. 1.12.2 Dharmadāsa-gani's Upadeśa-māla has many verses in common with the MNA, hence Schubring and others have used its edition by L.P. Tessitori, 1912; equally Haribhadra's Upadeśa-pada (see JRK,p.48; publ. Bhāvnagar, 1900) was utilized. 1.12.3 Ratnasekhara cites in his Ācāra-pradipa (composed in samvat 1516, see JRK,p.22(i)) long extracts from the MNA,Chap.III; its Ahmedabad (? Bombay samvat 1958f.) edition was used by both, Schubring (MNSt.A,p.50) and Deleu (MNSt.B,p.156). 1.12.4 An anonymous book in Gujarāti was used by W. Schubring in MNSt.A-B-C: sumati nāgila caritra tathā samjatâsamjat ane gaccha-kugaccha-no adhikār, Ahmedabad, samvat 1933. 1.12.5 He similarly consulted the Mss. (and the appendix to the Ātmānanda-Grantharatnamālā,No.67.1918) of the Susadha-caritra by Devendra-sūrio, see MNSt.A.p.48 (with fn.1); Lehre,p.78; and MNSt.B,p.74. 1.12.6 The Abhidhāna-Rajendra-Kośa (ARK) quotes often from the MNA. These quotations have been taken into consideration by Schubring, Hamm and Deleu. 11.13 Gacchâcāra, -prakiraka
This text has many verses in common with the MNA as was noticed by A. Weber. We use the edition prepared by Muni Punyavijayaji and A.M.Bhojak, Paiņņayasuttāimo (Jaina-Agama-Granthamālā, 17,1.1.1984). 136,20,530 pp.
Report...1883-84 by R.G. Bhandarkar, pp.144-155. See below 11.16.
8 See JRK, pp.49-51. Of the Upadeśa-mālā we have at hand its edition by L.P.Tessitori (Giornale della Societa Asiatica Italiana, 25.1912, pp.167-249) and also its publication with the Doghatři-vrtti of Ratnaprabhasūri edited by ācārya Hemasāgara-suri (sri Ananda-Hema-Jaina-Granthamālā, No.6.1958).
9 Schubring opines that the Susadha-caritra of Devendra-sūri (Pkt, 519 äryäs) is an adaptation of MNA, VIII. He gives, therefore, a synopsis of this work on the basis of four Mss. (2 in Berlin, 1 each from Vienna and Poona) and compares both texts critically. (JRK,pp.447-8: Susadha(sic!)-kathā, -caritra (I) + (II), Suşama-kathā refer most probably to this work of Devendra-sūri.)
10 This edition contains 20 texts. Gacchâyāra (137 vss.) is the 17th, pp. 337-349. -- For other editions see e.g. Studien zum Jainismus und Buddhismus Gedenkschrift für Ludwig Alsdorf (= SUJB-LA - Alsdorf Mem. Vol.), ed. by Klaus Bruhn, Albrecht Wezler (ANISH.23.1981),p.311.