Vijyanandsuri Swargarohan Shatabdi Granth

Author(s): Navinchandra Vijaymuni, Ramanlal C Shah, Shripal Jain
Publisher: Vijayanand Suri Sahitya Prakashan Foundation Pavagadh

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seeks to examine the objectives of the benediction (mangalacarana) from the standpoint of Nyāya philosophy. The detailed evaluation led the author to conclude that the mangalācarana was of three types - physical, oral and mental. The absence of benediction in Kesavamisra's Tarkabhasa is explained on the ground that it is the mental benediction that has supplanted the formal mangala here. Though the work is concerned with neo-nyaya which is notorious for toughness, the presentation is throughout lucid and precise, shorn of unnecessary accretions or details. One of its codices forms part of the treasure of rare manuscripts in the Abhaya Jaina Granthalaya, Bikaner.
Samayasundara did not mean to overburden his writings with abstruse grammatical forms : However, his firm grounding in grammar is evident from his references to the Astādhyayi, Hemacandra's Lingānusasana, Kalaparyākarana and Visnuvartika. Sārasvata-vyākarana-rahasya (SVR) and Sarasvate-sabda- rūpāvali (SSR), that forms a sort of supplement to the former, bear testimony to his equipment in the Sarasvata system of grammar. The initial and concluding parts of the SVR indicate that the author had herein dealt with the Sārasvata vyakarana in its entirety but the known segment is confined to the verbal forms alone, albeit in all the tenses and sub-divisions. One of its MSS is known to exist in Jinanarivihāra, Palitana. The autnorship of the SSR has been disputed, though a verse, 26 quoted by Vinayasāgara, unmistakably attributes it to Samayasundara.
The Kalakācarya-Katha (KK) forms an important contribution to the story - literature. The story of Kalaka has exercised powerful influence on the jaina society to the extent that it led to the emergence of no less than thirty works of uneven worth and girth. Samayasundara's KK occupies a high place in the series of similar works, attempted earlier. It is still known through its manuscripts which are deposited with some of the Bhandaras at Bikaner, Calcutta etc. The KK was written in V.S. 1666 while Rawal Tejsi was ruling at Vikramapur.' One Kathakosa is also attributed to Samayasundara though it is not clear whether it was an original work or a mere collection of earlier stories. A MS of the Kathāpatrāni, written at Jalore in V.S. 1695, by the author in his own hand, contains 114 stories.
The Visesa-Samgraha, intended to be a guide to the young
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