________________
92
Paramātma-prakaša
P. Described- This is a paper Ms., abount 12.5 by 6.3 inches in size, with a label 'Paramātmaprakāśa Karnātaka ţikäsahita', new No. 223, from Jaina Siddhānta Bhavana, Arrah (Bihar). It covers loose folios Nos it forms a part of some bigger bundle of Mss. Hand-made paper with water-marks is used. It is written in Kannada characters on both sides of the leaf with some 18-20 lines on each page. It is a new Ms. perhaps something like 50 years old. It contains the text and the Kannada commentary of (Kurkkutāśana Maladhāre) Balacandradeva which is a Kannada rendering of the Sk. commentary of Brahmadeva.
Compared with Brahmadeva's text presented in this edition, this Ms. contains six additional verses. Two verses (kayakiļesim etc. and appasahave etc.) after II, 36, one dohā (are jiü sokkhe etc.) after II. 134; one dohā (panna na mariya etc.) after II, 140; one dohā (appaha paraha etc.) after II. 156; and one more (amtu vi gantu vi etc.) after II. 203. With these six additional verses we have 351 verses in all, and the last verse is serially numbered as 351. In his concluding remark Balacandra says that there are 350 verses in all, but this is not consistent with his own numbering. One or two such inconsistencies are found in his remarks in other places also.
This Ms. reached my hands very late, so I have not recorded the various readings from it. It has many scribal errors here and there. Dh is correctly written in this Ms., though with other Kannada Mss, it has certain common features : the presense of !, the use of nölli in the dohās, absence of any distinction between short and long vowels etc. Practically the text agrees with that of Brahmadeva, but throughout this Ms, there is a decided inclination towards form like Bamhu, käranena, bhāvem, mellavi, ke vi, jerva poggaļu, ekka jojji sojji rather than Bambhu, karanina, bhävim, millivi, kivi, jima, puggalu, ikka, jo ji, so ji etc.
This Ms. begins thus : sri Pårsvanāthaya namaḥ | Paramātmaprakäsa baruvadakke nirvighnamastu || subhamastu i nirupaman etc. The concluding passage runs thus, and it is reproduced without any emendations besides spacing: imti Paramātmaprakāśa mahāšāstra graṁtha samāptam bhūyat mangalamaha sri sri sri jalādrakse tailadrak şe rakşe Sitalabamdhanåt | kastena likhitam šástram yatnena pratipalayet |||
Q. Described, This is a palm-leaf Ms., about 20.2 by 2.1 inches in size with a label Paramātmaprakafa vrtti' new Nos. 190 and 345, from the Jaina Siddhānta Bhavana, Arrah (Bihar). This Ms, is not carefully preserved; it appears to have been exposed to smoke and moisture; the edges of some leaves are broken; and some leaves in the middle are mutilated. I think, it might be about 100 years old. The folios, as we have in it, are numbered 137 to 158; so it must have formed originally a part of a bundle of Mss. The first leaf is missing, so we begin from dohã No. 13. It is written in Kannada characters
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
