Mahavira and his Teaching

Author(s): C C Shah, Rishabhdas Ranka, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Bhagwan Mahavir 2500th Nirvan Mahotsava Samiti

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THE BĀRASA-AŅUVEKKHA OF KUNDAKUNDA Chandrabhal Tripathi and Bansidhar Bhatt
(Freie Universität, Berlin)
$ 1. INTRODUCTION". $ 1.1 Among the fifteen Prakrit texts ascribed to Kundakunda, the second position has to be assigned to the Barasa-Anuvekkha (BA), the first being occupied no doubt by the Samayasāra. The BA has been treated as early as 1935 by Professor A. N. UPADHYE in his “Exhaustive essay on the life, date and works of Kundakunda”l. In 1960, A. N. UPADHYE discussed the BA again? while scrutinizing the Jaina literature on Aņuvekkhā.
Recently, we have studied the BA from two directions: BANSIDHAR BHATT3 has traced the “Samayasāra-mysticism”, the main contribution of Kundakunda; CHANDRABHAL TRIPATHI4 has dealt with a Kannada Manuscript of the BA at Strasbourg. The Strasbourg Manuscript has already been mentioned by the late Professor ERNST LEUMANNS in an introductory note on the Mulācāra 1. Published as the Introduction to his edition of the Pravacanasāra of
Kundakunda in the Srimad Rājacandra Jaina Šāstramālā (RJS),5.
19643. See pp. 37-8 for the BA. 2. A. N. UPADHYE, Svâmi-Kumāra's Kârttrkeyānuprekşā (SKA). RJŚ 2. 1960.
Introduction (SKA. Intr.), pp. 21-2 and pp. 60 ff 3. BANSIDHAR BHATT, "Vyavahāra-naya and Niscaya-naya in Kundakunda's Works"
An article presently under publication in the ZDMG (Supplementband,
Deutscher Orientalistentag Lubeck Okt. 1972). 4. CHANDRABHAL TRIPATHI, Catalogue of the Jaina Manuscripts at Strasbourg
(Leiden Brill, under print as Indologia Berolinensis, Vol. 4), Serial
No 61 (registered by LEUMANN as S 364€, i.e. Foll. 206-211 of S 364). 5. See ERNST LEUMANN, Übersicht über die Āvaśyaka-Literatur (Hamburg 1934: Alt-und Neu-Indische Studien, Vol. 4), p. 156, 57-9.
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