Vaishali Institute Research Bulletin 3

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

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PRAKRIT QUOTATIONS IN THE CAVUṀDARAYA PURĀŅA
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All these gāhās are quoted by the author without making any reference to any of the sources and in the manner that each of these appears to form a part of the body of the text itself. All these gāhās have come down to us in very corrupt form, obviously owing to the ignorance of Prakrit on the part of the several in the generations of copyists of the manuscripts. Such ignorance is very well reflected in quotations Nos. 7 and 8 above: both of which are the same quoted gāhā but corrupt form in the text of the two differ widely. Moreover the technique of indicating a cluster by a bindu in old Kannada manscripts, and the genuine bindu in the gahās, have further confused the editors of all the three editions of this work in arriving at the right readings of some words in these quotations.11 This made my problem of reconstructing the gahās or parts of the gāhās still harder; and without such reconstruction, my attempt at tracing them to their sources could have been just a misadventure. Hence in respect of some words in these quotations, I tried to replace the clusterindicating bindu (in the Kannada script of the text) by the right cluster12 and, then, go ahead.
Coming to the sources of the quotation, Dr. Upadhye has already noted the sources of quotations Nos. 7-8 and 9 as gāhā No. 69 in Kundakunda's Bārasa Anuvekkha and as gähä No. 225 in Vasunandi's Sāvayāyāra respectively, with a remark that the latter verse is also a quotation in Vasunandi.18 We should also remember that at that time there was available in print only the portion of Adipurāṇa, in which quotations Nos. 5, 7-8 and 9 only were available.
My attempt at tracing these quotations to their respective sources has borne fruit as follows:
Quotation No. 1 Agahidamissam etc., is gāhā 559 in the Jiva Kāṇḍa of the Gommaṭasāra.14 Qt. No. 2 Osappini etc., is gāhā 27 in the Barasa Anuvekkha (Bā. A.) of Kundakunda.15 Qt. No. 4 Nirayāvu etc., is gāhā 28 ibid. Qt. No. 6 Duonadam etc., is gāhā No. 104 in the Mulācāra of Vattakera.16 Qt. Nos. 7-8 Damsaṇavada Sāmāyiya etc., is also gāhā 477 in the Jiva Kanda of the Gommaṭasāra.17 Qt. No. 10 Savvammi etc., is
11. As a result, the very reading of such words sounded to me at first un-Prakritic and made no meaning.
As could be seen in the index above too.
Vide loc. cit.
12.
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13.
Rayachand Jaina Granthamālā, Bombay edition.
15. Comprised in the Satprabhṛtābi Sangraha, Pub. M. D. J. Series,
Bombay.
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16.
17.
Pub. in the M. D. J. Series, Bombay.
S. B. J. Series, Vol. V, Lucknow, 1927,