Nayakumarchariu

Author(s): Pushpadant, Hiralal Jain
Publisher: Balatkaragana Jain Publication Society

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THE GLOSS AND ITS AUTHORSHIP
IV. Miscellaneous. At VI, 10, 1-2 we have a gathā having 30 mätras in the first line and 27 in
the second with a caesura at the 12th in either. (PP.p.108). At VI, 10, 3-4 we have a Sanskrit verse in Vanastha metre. Its last foot
is, however, Upendravajrā'. At the end in the Prasasti, we have six Guthi' verses as in VI, 10, 1-2,
except that the second line of yurses 2 and 5 has 30 mātrās instead of 27,
13. The gloss and its authorship. It has been mentioned in the description of the MSS. that three of them bear glosses ( tippana) on the margin. These are moro numerous and elucidative in D specially at the beginning of the work. It may appear that these notes were made by some readers or students of the MSS. according to the explanations of their teacher. But most of the notes are identical in all the three MSS. Sometimes they even agree in making a common mistake and in a few cases the same note has been shown to refer to different adjacent words. The only conclusion that can be drawn from these facts is that the makers of the MSS. copied the notes from a common source and that they are mainly the work of a single author. Who is this author? A clue to his identification is furnished by a note in MS. D. on सरजाइभेय, III, 6, 4. There we are told-सरजाइभेय पद्मजाताया अष्टादश महापुराणटिप्पणके O||4101 | The gloss-maker, in my opinion, means to say here that he had already explained the eighteen jātis of music in his glosses on the Mahāpurāņa. Now, we have a gloss on the Mahäpurāņa of Puspadanta which is found on the margin of some MSS of the Mahấpuräna as well as on independent MSS. I have seen two MSS. containing the glosses on the Adipurāna and the Uttarapurāņa respectively, from which I take the following extracts :The Adipurāna tippana begins
प्रणम्य वीरं विबुधेन्द्रसंस्तुतं निरस्तदोषं वृषभं महोदयम् । ___ पदार्थसंदिग्धजनप्रबोधकं महापुराणस्य करोमि टिप्पणम् ॥ It ends--
समस्तसंदेहहरं मनोहरं प्रवृष्टपुण्यप्रभवं जिनेश्वरम् ।
कृतं पुराणे प्रथमे सुटिप्पणं सुखावबोधं निखिलार्थदर्पणम् ॥ इति श्रीप्रभाचन्द्रविरचितमादिपुराणटिप्पणकं पञ्चाशत् श्लोकहीनसहस्रद्वयपरिमाणं परिसमाप्तम् ॥ The Uttarapurāna ends
तत्त्वाधारमहापुराणगमनद्योती ननानन्दनः सर्वप्राणिमनःप्रभेदपटुताप्रस्पष्टवाक्यैः करैः । भव्याब्जप्रतिबोधकः समुदितो भूभृत्प्रभाचन्द्रतः जीयाटिप्पणकः प्रचण्डतरणिः सर्वार्थमग्रद्युतिः॥
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