Sramana 1998 01

Author(s): Ashokkumar Singh, Shivprasad, Shreeprakash Pandey
Publisher: Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi

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brought out by Mahāvira Jaina Vidyalaya, Bombay 1941, must be acknowledged. Though he did not find out the sources of all the extracts and with full details yet his effort is commendable.
A study of these extracts etc. reveals that Haribhadra in this text has cited from or referred to Vālmiki Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata, Manusmști, Vişnusmộti, Śivadharmottarapurāņa etc. Brahminical texts. Acārāñgasūtra, Kalpasūtra, Āvaśyakaniryukti, Nyāyāvatāra and Višeşāvaśyaka Bhāsya among Jaina texts and Buddhist text in sanskrt, Lañkāvatārasūtra.
As already mentioned Vedic text Śivadharmottarapurāņa and Buddhist text Lañkāvatārasūtra have been explicitly referred to. Sources of the remaining quotations etc. have to be traced out.
We find, in this regard that the first quotation occurs in the fourth Agnikārikāştakaṁ. Haribhadra in this Astaka maintains that the practice of Sacrificial fire (Agnikārikā), resorted to by devotees of heretic traditions, bestows worldly achievements only. The ultimate goal of emancipation, attained by knowledge and meditation, can never be realised by it (Sacrificial fire). The verses : one containing his (Haribhadra's) proposition and other quoted from Sivadharmottarapurāņa to prove his point, are as follows -- दीक्षा मोक्षार्थमाख्याता ज्ञानध्यानफलं च स ।
शाखा उक्तो यतः सूत्रं शिवधर्मोत्तरे छदः ।। २/४ पूजया विपुलं राज्यमग्निकार्येण सम्पदः ।
तपः पापविशुद्ध्यर्थं ज्ञानं ध्यानं च मुक्तिदम् ।।३/४।। That is worship and Sacrificial fire (Agnikārikā) yield worldly pleasures like statehood and riches only. Penances eliminate sins, salvation is the outcome of knowledge and meditation. Haribhadra, in order to glorify the penance, knowledge and meditation, and to denounce the worship and sacrificial fire, has cited the verse from Sivadharmottarapurāņa, probably another name of Sivapurāņa.