Yatindrasuri Abhinandan Granth

Author(s): Kalyanvijay Gani
Publisher: Saudharmbruhat Tapagacchiya Shwetambar Shree Sangh

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PRAKRIT
Sutras of Dhavala, Jayadhavala, and Mahādhavala commentaries. There are other works, more or less compiling the traditional matter, like the Kammapayadi of Sīvasarman, Panca saingraha of Candrarsi, Gommataśara of Nemicandra. On these works huge and learned commentaries have been written in Sanskrit. The Savayapannatți of Umāsvāti, in some 400 gāthās, is a succinct compendium of the Jaincode of morals, with its metaphysical background.
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Many legends are current about Siddhasena Divakara (6th or 7th C. A. D.), in whom we have a first rate poet and outstanding logician. His hymns in Sanskrit testify to his poetic fire. His Sanmaţiṭarka in Prakrit is a brilliant treatise, elucidating the Jain epistemology and doctrines of Nayas and Anēkānṭāvāda. The Dharmasaimgrahani of Haribhadra is an exhaustive treatise on different aspects of Jain dogmatics. The Kattigeyanuppekkha of Kumar mainly deals with twelve-fold reflection, but incidentlly forms a good expositon of fundamental Jain dogmas. Devasena deals with different dogmatic topics of Jainism in his Bhavasamgraha, Ardhanasara and Taṭṭvasara, his Dars'nasara (933 A. D.) which records the traditional account of different Sanghas, is of historical importance. There are certain Apabhramsa texts dealing with mysticism on a background of Jain and Buddhistic dogmatics; the Paramappapayasu and Yogasāra of Joinḍu (ca. 6th C. A. D.); the Dohākōsa of Kanha and Saraha.
Though certain quotations indicate the existance of Prakrit grammers written in Prakrit, all these that are available today are written in Sanskrit. In lexicography, Dhanapāla wrote his Paiyalacchi. nāma māla (972-973 A. D.) presenting a list of Prakrit synonyms for his younger sister, Sundari. The Desinämamālā of Hemachandra has the specialized aim of giving Desi words, i. e. words that can not be traced to Sanskrit, with qnotations to illustrate their usage. He refers by name to more than a dozen of his predecessors in the field, but their works have not come down to us. A work of poetics attributed to Hari is lost; we have Aläinkäradappaṇa of an unknown author. Prakrit has its special metres in the gatha, but most of the classical writers have used the