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7.6 PANCAKAPPABHASA
(Panca Kapp Bhā.)
Although Winternitz stated that the [basic text of the) Pañcakappa does not appear to be in existence any longer" (1933:2, 465), Tripathi's research indicates that there never was a Pañcakalpa-sūtra, nor a Pancakalpa-niryukti: "The so-called Pancakalpa-laghubhāşya is nothing but an anthology of some 184 verses excerpted from the Pancakalpabhāşya"? (Tripathi 1983, 121). Content: Known only from the 'cunni' and the bhāsya), this text is written in gāthās and deals with monastic rules (Schubring 1935 $52). References: JRK, 223a; Schubring 1935 $52; BORI Cat. 17:2, 257-62. Sanghadāsa Gani, Bhāsya, (grantha 2574 gāthās, or 3035 slokas). Begins: vandāmi Bhaddabāhum
(JRK, 223a. JSBI, 3, 276-283; BORI Cat. 17:2, 258-61).
Muni Punyavijaya prepared a handwritten copy of this text in Vi. sam. 1983 (1926). "Not published" (JSBI, 3, 276 n. 1) but see Pancakapp.1971 or 1972 below."
1971 or 1972 Pancakappabhāsam = Pancakalpabhāsyam / samsodhakah Lābhasāgaraganih.
Kapadavanja, Ji[la). Khedā: Āgamoddhāraka-granthamälā, Vīra sam. 2498 [1972). Vikrama samvat 2028 (1971). Āgamo sam. 23. 296, 16 p. ; 19cm.
Contents: Prastāvanā / Punyodayasāgara (3)-10.– [Concordance of Laghu bhāsyānka and Mahat bhäsyänka) 11-14.- Prakāśakiya-nivedana (15).-Vişayanukrama (16)18.-Pañcakappabhāṣaam [1]-296.-Suddhi patram [1]-16. Text established on the basis of three MSS:-(1) in the Jainānanda Pustakālaya [Surat?]; (2) in the collection of Sri Kāntivijayajī, Chāņi (near Baroda); and (3) in the Sri Jaina Svetāmbara Jñānamandira. (Prakāśakiya-nivedana, p. 15). "Pratayah 300."
LD 18 373
Exegesis:
Anonymous, (mistakenly ascribed to Amradevācārya) Cūrni, (grantha about 3 000). Begins: mangalādīni satthāni (JRK, 223b). Final verse quoted by Punyavijaya gives the grantha total as 3125 (Nandi.1966a, 7 (1st group); BORI Cat. 17:2, 257–8).
"A commentary in ... Sanskrit and Prakrit on the laghubhäsya of the Pancakalpasūtra, a
work of Bhadrabāhusvāmin, who extracted it from the 9th Pūrva" (BORI Cat 17:2, 257). 2 Pancakalpasūtraparyāya, part of the Pañcavastukaparyāya (BORI Cat. 17:2 261-2).
Studies: Tripāthi, Chandrabhāl. 1983. Narratives in the Pancakalpabhāsya and cognate texts. Indologica
Taurinensia 11 (1983) [119]-128.
1 Cf. JSBI 3, 276. ? "It elucidates the laghubhāsya (?) of the Pancakalpasūtra ... no manuscript of this Chedasūtra is available ...
[MS versions however) exised up to samvat 1612 [1555]" (BORI Cat 17:2, 259). Posthumous publication of an edition prepared by the late C. Tripathi has been announced by Bruhn (1996, 47). Twelve verses were published in 1974 by Umakant P. Shah from "MS no. 1673, Sri Hamsavijaya's collection, Baroda, copy kindly supplied by Muni Śrī Punyavijayaji." (The Jaina monk Kälakācārya : a historical figure, Adyar Library bulletin 58 (1974) [84]-101), p. 88–89.
