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E. Leumann, An outline of the Avaśyaka Literature
Kupaks. I 2 that can be found printed in Weber's Cat. II 958, 21-24, as well as in Bhandarkar's Rep.18874, p. 455,14.
From all that has been said, it is sufficiently clear what popularity Jinabhadra's Ksetrasamāsa had acquired in various forms. It is self-evident that the commentarial literature cites many gāthā-s from it.
The Sam grahanī has met, more or less, the same fate as the Kşetrasamāsa. This t has also been commented by Haribhadra and Malayagiri and in recent times pushed into the background by shorter adaptations by Śrīcandra and others. Compared with these abridgements our text is generally called bphatSamgrahaņī that also helps to differentiate it from Haribhadra's Samgrahani (which will be discussed later). It seems to appear in various sizes, depending on the number of additional stanzas, which have gained entry: for that matter, there are mss with 383, 419 and 520 stanzas, and Malayagiri's commentary (more about this later) has a total of almost 370, of which many (9 f. 15 f., etc.) have been expressly designated as interpolations (anya-kartyka- or praksepa-gāthā-s). – Srīcandra's excerpt (commented on by Devabhadra in 3,500 grantha-s) that contains 273 (and more) gāthā-s, is, as a rule, called laghuSamgrahaņī or even Samgrahanīratna. It appears, itself, in a twofold enlarged version (in 318 or 348, respectively 349 gāthā-s) with the subtitle Trailokyadīpikā (under which P IV 405 has been registered). Both Trailokyadīpikā-recensions were published in Bombay, the first in Prakaranaratnāk. IV 33-184, the second with the double title brhatSamgrahaņi Trailokyadīpikā in Laghupr.' (348 gāthā-s) and (349 gāthā-s).
Even in its arrangement and contents the Samgrahaņī is consistent with the Ksetrasamāsa. Composed of a few hundred gāthā-s to which some old sloka-s have been added, it condenses certain widely held doctrines, scattered in Upanga 3 & 4 and in Anga 5, about the four main types of creatures (I gods, II creatures of hell, III human beings, IV animals), and, for this reason, in all versions contains four corresponding parts, where, each time, the most important characteristics (span of life, etc.) are depicted in sequence.
At the end a two-strophic (revealing the old gāthā-metre) Samgrahaņī has been added that enumerates a number of characteristics Jinabhadra had left out. Apparently, in this manner, what is missing is supposed to be pointed out. The pair of stanzas has been taken from the opening of Jīvâbh. II, where it serves as a synopsis for the chapter. Jinabhadra makes many similar borrowings from the older literature; among others, sloka 181 originates from Bhag. VI 7 (& Anuyogadv. Ed. p. 431). Accordingly, a gāthā following this Samgrahaņī also points to the fact that much in the text must have been composed by earlier teachers". puvv'āyariya-kaya.
The Visesaņavatī discusses a series of records, which contradict themselves or which can be interpreted differently. Mostly, it deals with difficulties of a dogmatic nature, only a few times with legendary inconsistencies. Everywhere Jinabhadra makes decisions, which, where it is possible, are based on references to canonical passages. Since the source-passages of the discussed records are also often given, this small text, thus, fairly completely, discloses the literary basis on which it has grown.
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