Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

Author(s): Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

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THE KUVALAYAMALÁ AND MODERN SCHOLARSHIP: 173
H. JACOBI completed his edition of Haribhadra's Samaräiccakahā, Vol. I, Text and Introduction, in 1926 (Bibliotheca Indica, Work No. 169, Calcutta 1926); and in his Introduction (pp. ii & iii), while reviewing the earlier discussion and accepting the revised date of Haribhadra (c. A. D. 750) as proposed by Muni JINAVIJAYA in his paper presented to the First Oriental Conference, Poona (1919), he discusses the exact date of the completion of the Kuvalayamâlâ as specified by its author, ascertaining it as 21st March, 779 A. D.
There is an exhaustive essay in Gujarati on the Kuvalayamala by JINAVIJAYA (See Jaina Sahitya Samsodhaka III, 2, pp. 169-94, Poonal Sam. 1983, i.e., A.D. 1927; also Vasantarajata Smärakagrantha, Ahmedabad 1927; its English summary by A. S. GOPANI in Bharatiya Vidya II, 1, Bombay 1940). Giving an outline of the Jaina narrative literature with pointed reference to certain works of which the Taramgaval of Pädalipta and Samaraiccakahd of Haribhadra are introduced in details. The controversy about the date of Haribhadra and the latest conclusion are reviewed. Then follows an account of the Kuvalayamālā based on the study of relevant sections from the Mss. from Jaisalmer (of which a set of Photographs was in the possession of Muni JINAVIJAYA and another set is in the Oriental Institute, Baroda) and Poona, especially the Prasasti portion (§ 430 with variants of P noted in the foot-notes) which is translated into Gujarati with valuable explanatory comments. on some of its references to Toramāņa, Pavvaiya, Jäbälipura, Gupta etc.. (A. M. GHATGE: Narrative Literature in Jaina Mähäräştri, Annals of the B.O.R.I., XVI, i-ii, p. 34; N. C. MEHTA: Jaina Record on Toramana, J. of. the Bihar & O. R. S. XIX, 1928, and Toramāņa visayaka Jaina ullekha, Jaina Siddhanta Bhaskara, XX, 2, pp. 1-6, Arrah 1953).
Pt. L. B. GANDHI edited three Apabhramsa works of Jinadattasûri, a senior contemporary of Hemacandra, in the G. O. S. (Apabhramsa Kavyatrayi, G. O. S., XXXVII, Baroda 1927). As an appendage to his Introduction (in Sanskrit), he has added a well-documented essay (in Sanskrit) on the Apabhramsa language. He explains incidentally the background of Präkrit, its relation with Sanskrit and the nature of Ardhamägadhi. In the context of the discussion about Desibhāṣäs, he has introduced in details the Prakrit Kuvalayamälä and has quoted a number of passages from it from the Jaisalmer Ms. (giving reference to its palmleaves) and they correspond to our text, in the order they are. quoted, as below: [p. 89, f. n.]: p. 282, l. 19 to p. 283 1. 6; [p. 90, f. n.]: p. 282, ll. 4 to 18; [pp. 91-94] p. 152, 1. 21 to p. 153, l. 12; [p. 91, f. n.]: p. 4, ll. 11-14; p. 281, ll. 22-25; p. 281, 1. 26 to p. 282, 1. 3; [pp. 97-98] :