Mahavira and his Teaching

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

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LUDWIK STERNBACH
It must be even emphasized that some verses of the Vaj". do not fit a Jaina work.2
B. The Suktamuktavali
4. More Jinistic in character, although also not par excellence Jinistic, is the Sūkta muktā vali (A Pearl of Necklace of good Sayings).
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Eg. all the verses with double meanings in varja-s 50-56 and 61 such as: 509. afu unat #1 Tot efet 775 I
धिद्धित्ति कूडलेहय अज्ज वि लेहत्तणे तण्हा ॥ (५२.२) 534. faust fa strana 3317 POST THI387 378
लट्टी वि सुप्पमाणा कि जतिय ऊणयं वहसि ।। (५५.२) Among other Prakrit Jaina anthologies the following should be mentioned (see also p. 55, footnote 2). The Kuvalayamålā of Uddyotanasūri (A.D, 778 or 779) (edited by A. N. UPADHYF in Singhi Jaina Serier 45, Bombay 1958; p. 3 lines 18 and 25 and p. 177 line 2) refers along with Hāla (called Salāhana) and Pālittaya to Chappannaya who seems not to be an individual author, but a committee of outstanding poets also known by the name of Vidagdhas; this was probably a group of 6 eminent poets (satpraiña) whose stray verses have survived in Setu. The Cha panna y a-gāhão or the Gathā ko sa of Chappanna ya (edited by A. N. UPADHYE, Šivan University Sanskrit and Prakrit Series III. Kolhapur 1970) contains 164 gathā-s written in Jaina Māhāräştri with some verses in Apabhramsa. The original work was probably shorter and several verses were added later. This subhå sita-samgraha is not divided, as the Vajjālaggam was, according to the puruşārtha-s but some topics are grouped together. Also in this anthology none of the stray are ascribed to individual authors.
In the first quarter of the twelfth century Municandra Sūri (died in A.D 1120) did compose a short subhåşıta-samgraha in Prakrit verses called Gathā ko sa or Rasāula gāth ākosa Although Municandra Sūri was a purist in Jaina practice, most of the verses quoted in the Gāthākoda are also not of Jaina character; they are of genral application (cf. P. PETERSON, Three Reports (1884-86) pp. 12-13 with extracts pp. 297-302; cf. J. Klatt in Indian Antiquary XI, p. 253,