Mahavira and his Teaching

SR No.: 008019
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: C C Shah, Rishabhdas Ranka, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Bhagwan Mahavir 2500th Nirvan Mahotsava Samiti
Publication Year: 1977
Total Pages: 509
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Biography, Religion, & Principle
File Size: 12 MB

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ON SOME NONCANONICAL SUBH AŞITA
D. Other Printed Jinistic Subhāṣita-samgraha-s 6. There exist also two Jinistic subhāṣita-samgraha-s which were however not available to me. They are the Sūkta muktā vali (or Sūktio or Sūktiratnāv alí) of Megha prabh a sūri published in the Jain Ātmānanda Sabhā Series, No. 61, Bhavnagar 1918 and the Sūkta rat nāvali of Vijaya sena sūri containing 54 subhâsıta-s and composed in samvat 1647 (=A.D. 1589) published in the Atmānanda Sabhā Series No. 23, Bhavnagar, samvat 1969 (=A.D. 1911).
7. A modern subhāşıta-samgraha, composed exclusively of ethical verses, is the five volume Subhāşit a-p a d y a-r atnāka ra by Munirāja Viśālavijaya, Śrī Vijayadharmasūrı Jaina Granthamālā 27, 31, 34, 48, 52, samvat 1991-1995 (A.D. 1933-7). It contains 4065 verses. This is not only an excellent selection of Jinistic subhaşıta-s with an explanation in Gujarati on Jaina doctrine and teachings from Jaina sources, but also a selection of many subhāşıta-s from the entire Sanskrit literature. A great part of the verses was culled from early and late Jaina works, to mention only a few: the Vivekaviläsa of Jinadattasūri of the Vāyaṇa Gaccha (see p. 75, fn. 1), Dharmabindu by Haribhadrasūri, Dharmakalpadruma, Kalpasūtra tıkā-s (Kalpasūtra-subodhikā by Vinayavijaya etc.), Upadeśatarangiņí by Ratnamandira of the Tapā Gaccha, Prasamarati by Umāsvāti, Adhyātmasāra by Yaśovijayagani, Ācāropadeśa by Cārıtrasundaragani, Adhyātmakalpadruma by Munisundarasūri of the Tapā Gaccha, Uttarādhyayanasūtra-tīkā by sāntyācārya, Vādivetāla of the Thāräpadra Gaccha, Srāddhapratikramaņavrtti, Srāddhaguņavivarana by Jinamayandanagani; as well as the late Upadeśaprāsāda by Laksmīvijayasūri of the Anandasūrisakhā, composed in samvat 1843 (=A.D. 1785), Tattvāmrta by Jyotirvijaya composed samvat 1845 (=A.D. 1787) and even Jñānaśataka by Hīrālāl composed in samvat 1959 (=A.D. 1901). But not only Jaina moral writings (some of which were mentioned above) and verses from subhāṣita-samgraha-s, as the Sūktamuktāvali, Anyoktimuktāvali of Hamsavijayagaội or Subhāşitasamdoha of Amitagatı were included in this subhāṣita samgraha, but also