Panch sutrakam with Tika

Author(s): Chirantanacharya, Haribhadrasuri, Jambuvijay, Dharmachandvijay, V M Kulkarni
Publisher: B L Institute of Indology

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sentences could legitimately be termed sūtra. In other words, the Jaina Agama is called sutra because it has the power to convey--to suggest various meanings. In this context the meaning of the term sūtra is: 'sūcanät-sūtram' i.e., that which suggests various meanings is a sūtra)."
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The Title of the Text Pañcasūtraka
The text in question is popularly known as Pañcasūtral (the Sanskrit equivalent of Parcasuttam. As pointed out by the Editor, two of the palm-leaf MSS (K and K1) refer to the title of this text as Pañcasūtra. The list of names of works, prepared in the 14th or 15th century (VS), and known by the name BỊhattippanika, also knows this work by the name Pancasūtra .
The two paper MSS (C and D) however, read the title as Pañcasūtraka. Ācārya Haribhadra too refers to the work as Pañcasūtraka3. The Vrtti (commentary) on Acārya Haribhadra's Yogabindu, although not svopajña is quite ancient. It also refers to this work as Pancasūtraka".
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Upādhyāya sri Yajovijayaji (17th century A.D.) in his Svopajña-Vrtti (commentary) on Dharma-parikşã quotes a passage from this work with the introductory remark 'Pañcasūtryảm apuktam's. It is obvious that he knew this work by the name Pañcasūtri.
It would thus seem that the present work had been known by three different names: (1) Pañcasūtra, (2) Pañcasūtraka, and (3) Pañcasūtri?
Acārya Haribhadra would like us to explain the title as follows: पापप्रतिघात-गुणबीजाधानसूत्रादीनि पञ्चसूत्राणि यस्मिन् प्रकरणे तत् पञ्चसूत्रम् । पञ्चसूत्रमेव पञ्चसूत्रक 9420118
*Shri Mahavira Jaina Vidyālaya edn., Bombay, 1968, pp. 12-13. 1. The printed edition, published by Sri Jain Atmanand Sabha Bhavnagar, 1914 bears the title:
चिरन्तनाचार्यकृतं पञ्चसूत्रम् The two editions of this text, prescribed for the B.A. Examinations of the University of Bombay for 1933 and 1934, are entitled Pancasuttań: (1) Ed, with Introduction and Notes by Prof. A. N. Upadhye and pub. by Dr. P. L. Vaidya, 12 Connaught Road, Poona No. 1, 1932 (2) Ed. with Sanskrit rendering, introduction, Notes and Translation in English by Prof. V. M. Shah and pub. by Gurjar Granthratna Karyalaya, Gandhi Road, Ahmedabad, 1934. The edn. by Muniraj Rājāśekharavijayaji, with translation in Gujarati and pub. by Bharatiya Prācya-tattva Prakāśana Samiti, Pindawada (Rajasthan) bears the title Sri Pancasatra.
Vide, --(entry No. 75) 3. Vide the present edn., p.11.3, p.24,1.19, p.33,1.17, p. 44,1.16, p. 65,1.16, p. 80, 1.18, p. 81,1.3. 4. Vide the extract from the commentary on Yogabindu v. 179, cited in Pancamam Parišisfam, p. 112
of the present edn. 5. Vide the extract cited inf.n. 3 on p. 18 of the present edn. 6. Cf. the titles Pancatantra and Pancatantraka.
Cf. the titles Astādhyāyi, Catuhsütri, Dvādaśadhyāyi, etc. Acārya Haribhadra, at the beginning of his commentary says: किमिदं पञ्चसूत्रकं नाम? उच्यते-पापप्रतिघातगुणबीजाधानसूत्रादीनि, पञ्च सूत्राण्येव । प्रवज्याविधानादीनि पञ्च वस्तूनि यस्मिन् प्रकरणे तत् पञ्चवस्तु, पञ्चवस्त्वेव पञ्चवस्तुकं ग्रंथे 791947... Fitfootfel
-पञ्चवस्तुकप्रथमगाथास्वोपज्ञवृत्तौ
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