Jainism and Karnataka Culture

SR No.: 011062
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S R Sharma
Publisher: Karnataka Historical Research Society Dharwar
Publication Year: 1940
Total Pages: 263
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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JAINISH AND KARNATAKA CULTURE
The advent of this great writer in Karnāțaka is rightly considered to mark an epoch, not only in Digambara histroy, but in the whole range of Sanskrit letrature.30
After Samantabhadra, the great names are those of Pujyapada and Akalanka:31 The former seems to have distinguished himself by his study of grammer as the latter did in logic. "A Pujya pada in grammer, a Bhattākalanka in logic, and Bhāravi in literature" are expressions that are frequently met with in the inscriptions which describe the learning of other writers like Jinacandra and Śrutamuni.32 From a verse in the Pattāvalis which reads:
यशः कीर्तिर्यशोनंदी देवनंदी महायतिः॥
श्रीपूज्यपादापराख्यो गुणनंदी गुणाकरः॥ Mr. K. B. Pāthak has pointed out that Dêvanandi was also another name of Pūjyapāda.33 The latter appears to have been a mere title ( lit, meaning one whose feet were adorable ) for he seems to have acquired it because of forest deities who worshiped at his feet. He was also called Jinêndra-buddhi on account of his great learning, and his most famous work is consequently known as Jainendra-vyākaraņa or the grammar of Jinêndrabuddhi. 34 Peterson observes that this book belongs to a class of works for which both sects of the Jainas contend, but in his opinion it is undoubtedly peculiar to the Digambaras. “The rival sect," he says, “as good as admits this when they assert, as they invariably do, that their recension of the Jainêndra is in eight, not five, adhyāyas. There appears to be no such work in existence as a Jainêndra in eight adhyāyas; and when they are hard-pressed the Śwetāmbaras can only put forward Hémachandra's book, and claim for it that title.” This being so, he
30 Cf. Bhandārkar, The Bom. Gaz. I ii, p. 406. 31 Cf. "Ep. Car. II, SB 64 and Introd., pp. 81-85. 32 Ibid. SB. 69 and 254. ^ 33 Cf. Pāthak, Ind. Ant. XII, p. 19; Poterson, Roport op Sap. MSS
VI, pp. 67-9. 34 Ep. Car. II SB. 264, Traps., p. 110.