Canonical Literature Of Jainas

SR No.: 022774
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H R Kapadia
Publisher: Hindi Granth Karyalay
Publication Year: 1941
Total Pages: 286
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 26 MB

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THE CANONICAL EXEGETICAL LITERATURE
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called Nisīhavisehacunni, and it is very prolific in contents.' Its author Jinadāsa Gaội himself has given it this name in this very work itself. Herein the author has ingeniously mentioned his name?, and has referred to Pradyumna Kşmāśramana as his vidyāguru. Further he has explained the meaning of Addhamāgahā, a Prākrta language, has mentioned works such as Siddhivinicchaya, Sammaï, Jonipāhuda, Naravāhanadattakaha’, Magahasenāk, Taranyavuz etc., and has referred to Siddhasena Divākara and his creation of horseso and to a famine during the reign of Candragupta. He has composed Nandīcunni, too, and there in the end, he has cleverly mentioned his name. In its several Mss., it is assigned a date Śaka Samvat 598 i. e. Vikrama Samvat 733. Anandasāgara Sūri has edited this Cunni, and therein the date is given as Saka 500. This date as well as the upper one are challenged by him. He says that the line pertaining to the date comes from the pen of a scribe and not that of the author. He has not assigned any reason for it; but it appears that he says so as this date upsets his belief to the effect that Haribhadra Sūri died in Vira Samvat 1055.9 In this Nandīcunni (pp. 7, 21 etc.) differences of opinion are noted, and on pp. 21–22 there is a discussion about the coexistence of kevalajñāna (omniscience) and kovaladarśana (absolute undifferentiated cognition). At times there are quotations in Prākrta (vide p. 43).
From the last line of the printed edition of Anuogaddāracunni, it follows that this Cunni, too, is composed by Jinadāsa Gaņi 1 Cyclostyled copies of this Nisihavisehacunni have been recently prepared
and presented to several Acāryas and Bhandāras. Therein the topics are
given in margins. 2 See D. C. J.M. (vol. XVII, pt. II, p. 357). 3-5 All these 3 works are extinct as is the case with Dvasaptatiprabandha
a work mentioned by Kalyānavijaya in his intro. (p. 7) to Prabhāvakacaritra. 6 For pertinent extracts see my article The Jaina Commentaries (pp. 299
300) published in the Annals of B. 0. R. I. (vol. XVI, pts. III-IV). 7 See D. C. J. M. (vol. XVII, Pt. III, p. xxy of Preface ). 8 See his preface to Nandicunni. 9 For details see my article “નન્દીસુર અને એની સુષ્ણિનું વિહંગાવલોકન” published in
Jainadharmaprakäśa (vol, LVI, no. 5, pp. 156-163),