Universal Values of Prakrit Texts

Author(s): Prem Suman Jain
Publisher: Bahubali Prakrit Vidyapeeth and Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan

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The earliest source material on the mathematical Karma theory is available in the following two texts of the Sauraseni Jaina scriptures of the Digambara Jaina school of philosophy.
i) The first is the Kasayapāhuda Sutta by Gunadhara (C. 1st cent. A.D.)2 consisting of 233 verses. This was produced from the third pahuda, 'Pejjadosa' of the tenth vastu of the fifth Purva, Jnāna Pravāda' of the fourth anga of the scripture. Yativrusabha compiled about 7009 verses of the 'Curni Sūtras' on the text. Vīraṣēna could compose an incompleted 'Jayadhavala' commentary of 20,000 verses on this work. Which was completed by Jinasena(C. 837 A.D.) in 40,000 additional verses. Nemicandra Siddhantacakravarti abstracted from the above works, a text known as the Labdhisāra-Ksapaṇasār3 consisting of 649 verses. A commentary in Sanskrit is available (anonymous) on it and Pandita Todaramala of Jaipur composed excellent commentary, the 'Samyakjnānacandrikā', in Dlundhari, (c. 1761 A.D.) with the help some text on the subject by Madhavacandra Traividya (C. 1203 A.D.) in about 13,000 sentences.4 This traces a linguistic development in Prakrit and the palaeographic development in Brahmi. This was a phenomenal work in the history of linguistics and palaeography and if research pursuits are carried out in the south India we could get much in solving the problems in this field.
ii) The second source is the set of the 'Satkhandāgama' texts (including the Mahabandha or the 'Mahādhavala' texts) by Dharaṣena's brilliant disciples, Puspadanta and Bhutabali (c. 2nd century A.D.) available in 23 volumes with commentary and translation in Hindi. The set was produced from 24 Anuyogadvaras of the fourth prabhrta, 'Karma Prakrti' of the fifth vastu, 'Cayana Labdhi' of the second purva, ' Agrayani' of the fourth purvagata of the twelveth anga 'Drsivada' of the scripture, Just look at ancient Indian store of knowledge, belonging to anonymous Indian saints who were selfless. The commentaries. On this set by Kundakunda, Samakunda,
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