Note on Hemchandras Abhidhanchintamani and Sanskrit Karmavati

Author(s): Nalini Balbir
Publisher: ZZ_Anusandhan

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अनुसन्धान-५४ श्रीहेमचन्द्राचार्यविशेषांक भाग-२
Hemacandra's list corresponds exactly to the classical divisions which define lime in its conventional meaning, as found -in Kundakunda:
samao nimiso kațțhā kalā ya āvali tado divāratti māsoduya-samvaccharo tti kālo parāyatto
(Pancāstikāya 25). The larger units are common to all sources:
30 muhūrta = 1 ahorātra 15 ahorātra = 1 pakşa 2 paksa = 1 māsa 2 māsa = I rtu 3 rtu = I ayana 2 ayana = 1 samvatsara
5 sumvatsara = 1 yuga
But no attestation of karmavāți or of any other time division based on karmao is found in any of these sources.
Some insight, however, is provided by the Jambuddivapannatti (JP), the Sūrapannatti (SP) and the Joisakarandaga (JK) in passages which are interrelated.21 Written in Jaina Māhārāştri and composed in verses, the JK-deals with the same subject matter as the SP, and is partly based on it. The seventh
ganita). It is based on Śvetāmbara and Digambara sources : Anuogaddāra. Jambudddivapannatti and Joisakarandaga on the one hand. Tiloyappannatti and Jambuddivapannatti (Dig.) on the other hand. 21. 1 have used the following editions: JP with śānticandra's commentary: vol. 13 in Agamasuttāni. Ed. Muni 'Diparatnasāgara. 2000. SP with Malayagiri's commentary: vol. 12 in Agamasuttāņi. Ed. Muni Diparatnasāgura. 2000; see also Josef Friedrich Kohl, Die Süryaprajñapti. Versnch vine Textgeschichte, Stuttgart, 1937 - JK: Padaliptasūri's Joisakdrandagam with Prākrta tippanaka by Vācaka Sivanandi. Ed. Late Muni Shri Punyavijayaji. Introduction etc. by Pt. Amritlal Mohanlal Bhojak, Bombay, Shri Mahāvira Jaina Vidyālaya, 1989 (Jaina-AgamaSeries No. 17 (Part III)), reviewed by Nalini Balbir in Bulletin d'Etudes