Risht Samucchaya

Author(s): Durgadevacharya, A S Gopani
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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THE RIŞTASAMUCCAYA The SRS' is a work by Jinacandra, the guru of Abhayadeva, the Navāngavṛttikāra, who belonged to the Candrakula. This Jinacandra flourished in the eleventh century A. D'. Some
portion of the SRS has separately appeared in a printed form'. $ The present passage. entitled the Bigaraiare of the SRS',
containing 263 sts. in Prākrit, is found written in about eight folios, from 85 to 92 of the Ms. of the SRS' which is there at Jesalmere in the Bhāņdār of Yati VỊddhicandraji.
I should also make clear at this time that there are two 10 distinct traditions also among the Jainas, namely, a Svetāmbara
tradition and a Digambara one. It seems that the first is represented by some such works as the UBPK, SRS and YS' and the other by the RS and perhaps the MK on which the RS, as
shown before, has specially drawn. It should also be remarked 15 in this context that there is not so much marked difference between these two Jaina traditions as there is between them and non-Jaina traditions. This becomes manifest mainly through the employment of different terminologies only in the RS on one hand and the SRS and the YS' on the other. 20 The Dvāragāthā and six other stanzas found at the end of P3 are the same verbatim as they are found in the SRS (sts. 5–11). Moreover these seven stanzas found at the end of P reveal a different hand and seem to have been added later on as I have previously said in the Introduction'. Thus 25 it is definitely clear that these seven stanzas and those found in
the SRS' have a cominon origin in the Svetāmbara tradition while the classification of the RS follows a different scheme altogether. This is almost all the difference that exists: between the two Jaina traditions. 30 Now I am coming to the discussion of the scheme of
classification adopted in the RS and the SRS'. The Ristas which are called the fourt, FM and 5987 in the RS (see sts. 18–107) have been treated in the SRS under the strear, ATEIT, srne, ya silarant, and facer (see sts. 54, 57, 58, 61, 104, 169, 179, 183, 35 187, 190, 191, 193, 194, 198, 208, 219, 221, 222, 224, 227, 235,
1 JSSI, para. 294. 2 Pub. Jinadattasüri Jõānamandira, Surat. 3 See Notes, p. 94. 4 See the first out of the two passages attached at the end of this seotion. 5 See the description of the Ms.styled Pin section 1 of the Introduotion.