Treasury of Jain Tales

Author(s): V M Kulkarni
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

Page 20

vii
and which delights (the readers) with the display of knowledge of various arts.
Uddyotanasuri declares that this samki rnakathā is three fold: 1. dharmakatha, 2. arthakathā and 3. kamakatha. The samkirnakatha is marked by all the distinguishing features and shows at the end the attainment of all the three ends of human life (trivarga: dharma, artha and kama). It deserves notice that as against the Das avaikālika-niryukti, which gives all the four dharma-kathā, etc., as the four types of kathả, the Kuvalayamālā gives the three dharma- artha and kama-kathās as the three kinds of the samki rnakatha. '? Like Haribhadrasūri Uddyotanasūri too gives the four sub-types or sub-varieties of the dharmakatha and briefly yet lucidly explains them: Tatra akkhevani mano'nukūlā, vikkhevani manopadikūlä, samveyajanani nānuppattikāraṇam., nivveyajanani puņa veragguppatti /
"Of the four varieties, the first ākṣepani is pleasant or agreeable to the mind, the second viksepani, unpleasant or disagreeable to the mind, the third samvegajanani is the mother of, that is, the source or cause of right knowledge and the fourth nirvedajanani is the mother of that is, the cause of vairägya, indifference to worldly objects and to life.
(B) Katha and its Varieties as given in Sanskrit Works on Poetics.
We are not here interested in the main literary forms - ākhyāyikä (Biography, e.g., Bāna's Harşacarita), kathā (Novel, e.g., Bāna's Kādambari and campū (a literary composition in mixed 12. 91377 qui va TET3TI JET - H ET, 0561,
उल्लावकहा, परिहासकहा तहावरा कहिय त्ति । एयाओ सव्वाओ वि एत्थ पसिद्धाओ सुंदर कहाओ । एयाण लक्खणधरा संकिण्णकह त्ति णायव्वा ।। .... quit hi fa fafaet I GEL - ETORET, 3treraient o 14 CHETI पुणो सव्वलक्खणा संपाइयतिवग्गा संकिण्ण त्ति । ता एसा धम्मकहा वि होऊण कामत्थसंभवे संकिण्णत्तणं पत्ता ।