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constitute bahir-atman and must be distinguished from the real nature of the self (137-40). Realisation of the self is liberation; to. achieve this end jñānābhyasa is a great means; for the house-holder, however, 53 duties are prescribed (156-57 ff.). The three jewels stand for gana and gaccha, the various virtues mean sangha, and samaya is the pure soul; the great monk should not be attached to gana etc., but he should cultivate three jewels with its attendant virtues, so that he will soon attain liberation. (161 etc.).
CRITICAL REMARKS ON RAYANASARA.-The text of. Rayanasāra, as a whole, is very badly handed down; from the footnotes which contain the results of the comparison of two MSS., it is clear that the number and the sequence of gathās are not definite; and they might further vary, if more MSS. are collated. There are repetitions of ideas, and the arrangement is not quite satisfactory; and this might be due to the disturbance of the text by additional gathās. It is conspicuous and not usual in the works of Kundakunda that in the middle we have a doha and about half a dozen verses in Apabhrams'a dialect. So far as the present shape of Rayanasara stands,.it cannot be, as a whole, attributed to Kundakunda. It is just possible that the ground-work may be his; even then some evidences to that effect must be produced. There are certain points which are not quite favourable for the authorship of Kundakunda: his name is not mentioned in the colophon; some; verses are in Apabhrams'a which is abnormal in his works; no doubt there are many common ideas, but there are certain social touches which are not met with in his other works; gana, gaccha, sangha etc. are referred to and a cryptic explanation is attempted; similes are found in his works, but the number of similes is very great here. That Kundakunda is the author of Rayanasara should remain, I think, a point sub judice, until some more evidences, one way or the other, are coming forth.
BARASA-ANUVĚKKHĀ: It contains 91 gāthās.. This work deals = with 12 reflections1 which should necessarily be cultivated for the stoppage
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1 The twelve Anupreksas, for various reasons the foremost being that the reflection thereon 18 & cause of stopping the karmic influx and that a discussion about them includes many topics of Jainism, have proved a fascinating subject with Jaina authors that much space is devoted to them in many works; and besides even independent works have been written. To note only a few: Mulacara of Vattakera has its 8th chapter devoted to this; then Kundakunda composed or compiled his Barasa-Anuvēkkhā, which has much, even some gathās, common with the above chapter); about 150 gathās are devoted to this topic in Bhagavati Aradhana of S'ivakoti (the text mentions his name as S'ivarya); in the S'vetambara canon, for instance, some 70 verses cover these topics in Maranasamadhi Painna; Barasa Anuvělkha of Kumara or Kartikeya (circa 8th century A. D.) contains 489 gathas and is solely devoted to 12 anupreksas; S'ubhacandra in his Sanskrit Jäänarnava, devotes about 195 verses to Anuprekṣās. Digambara authors like Amitagati, Somadeva and Padmanandi have discussed these anupreksäs in their works; among the S'vetambaras, too, works like Duādas'abhāvanā, (Jamna - Granthāva p. 180), Bhavanāsamdhu-prakarana (Annlas of the B. O. R. I. vol. XI, 1.) are current. Dhavala, in his Harivams'apurana (Apabhrams'a) refers to, some work on Anupreksā by one Simhanandi which is not discovered, so far as I know, anywhere. In Kanarese, Hindi and other vernaculars, too, works devoted to Anupreksä are composed both by early and modern authors.
