Vaishali Institute Research Bulletin 3

Author(s): R P Poddar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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VAISHALI RESEARCH BULLETIN No. 3
The Cāvuṁdarāya Purāṇa was composed in prose by the great Camundarāya in 978 A. D. It narrates the accounts of the 24 Tirthakaras and other great personages o the Adipuräna of Jinasenācārya and the Uttarapurāna of Guņabhädrācārya.5 Camundarāya tells us in the introductory part of this work that he composed this work in Kannada for the benefit of the liberables (bhavyas). Chronologically this work stands next to the Vaddārādhane in the old Kannada prose literature. Though several native words and idioms are found spread all over the text of this work, on the whole its language is highly Sanskrit-ridden. Besides it also shows considerable Prakritic influence. The author respectfully refers to a few ancient Prakrit works like Acāra, Pra jñapti? and Arādhanäs which are obviously the Mūlācāra, the Triloka-pra jñapti and Mulārādhanā. There are also found in the text of this work Prakrit words like hetthima, saṁthāra, jasa, miga, sagga etc. and words with Prakritic influence like gudda, pāguda etc.9 Moreover, there are found several Prakrit verses, quoted at requisite contexts, along the course of the whole text. 10 Following is the alphabetical index of the gābās quoted in this work : 1. Agahidamissa
(p. 273) 2. Osappiņi
(p. 274) Ņanadirayanań
(p. 297) Nirayāvu
(p. 275) Dasu hetthimāsu
(p. 28) 6. Duonadań
(p. 243) 7. Dañsanavada Sāmāyiya
(p. 30)
(p. 211) Padigahamucca
(p. 39) 10. Savvammi
(p. 274) 11. Savve Payadi
(p. 276) 12. Savva vi Poggalā
(p. 274) (ii) Recently the whole work, entitled Trişasti salākā Puruşa Purānań, was edited by Dr. B. S. Kulkarni and published by the K. R. I., Karnatak University, Dharwad, 1975. For details on this point, vide Dr. A. N. Upadhye's "The Predecessors of Cāmundarāya, Journal of the Karnatak University (Humanities), Vol. IV.
(i) p. 6.
(ii) All such references are to the pages of the Trişaşți Šalākā Puruşa Purānań. p. 6.
p. 17 9. For details in this regard vide my paper, Some Observations on
the Cämundarāya Purāņa, Journal of the Karnatak University
(Humanities), Vol. XIII. 10. Similarly are also found many Sanskrit verses quoted here.
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