Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 4

Author(s): Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication

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भाष्यं सामायिकस्य स्फुटविकट पदार्थोपगृढ बृहचश्रीमत्पूज्यैरकारि क्षतकलुषधियां भूरिसंस्कारधारि । तस्य ब्याख्यानमात्र किमपि विवधता यम्मया पुण्यमाप्त
प्रेत्याहं द्वाग् लभेयं परमपरिमितां प्रीतिमत्रय तेन ॥
No more information is available about the life of this great Acārya. Works--
Jinabhastragaại Kşamāśramaņa is said to have composed the following works :
(i) Višesā vaśyaka Bhăşya This welknown work has been ranked as one of the most important and highly esteemed works of Jainism. The auther himself wrote a commentary on this Bhāsya in Sanskrit. Jinabhadrayani has earned the reputation as a commentator mainly from this work. For, wherever he has been referred to as Bhāsyakāra, the references have been quoted from Višesāvaśyaka Bhásya. But as has been suggested in the Preface to the Jîta Kalpa Sotra* it is not improbable if Jinabhadragani Kşamaśramaņa had composed other bhāsyas as well. Take, for example, the following verse from the Višesāvasayaka Bhásya
पोग्गल-मोदय-दन्ते फरुसगवडसालभंजने चेव ।
थीणाद्धियस्स ए ए दिहता होंति नायब्वा ॥ २३५ ॥
In this verse, the examples of poggala ( flesh ) modaya (sueet-balls ) lanta (teeth ) pharusaga (a potter) and vadasala (the branch of a tree ) have not been explained in details by the commentators. Ācārya Hemacandra Maladhāri suggestively remarks that “ एतान्युदाहरणानि विशेषतो निशीथादवसेयानि" (These examples should be understood in cletails from Niseetha ).
Kotyācāryat also leaves the remark unexplained merely by saying “farsftet aTTA: " (We shall explain this in Niśeetha ).
* Vide Jita Kalpa Sūtra, Preface, Page 9.
Whose commentary has not been published, but is preserv. ed in the Bhāndārkar Research Institute, Poona.