Siri Bhuvalay Part 01

SR No.: 023254
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Swarna Jyoti
Publisher: Pustak Shakti Prakashan
Publication Year: 2007
Total Pages: 504
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 12 MB

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सिरि भूवलय
well as the Ramayana (which also is included in this Kavya by Kumudendu) are acknowledgly fundamental texts for the study of Indian culture.
Besides these works of general interest, the Bhuvalaya professes to give the texts of important Jaina texts like Tattavarthadigama sutras of Uma Swati, The Gandhahasti Mahabhasya, Devagamastotra etc, of Samanta Bhadra, Chudamani, Samayasara, Pravachana Sara etc of Kundakundacharya, the work of Pujyapada like Sarvartha Siddhi, Akalamka, Virasena, Jinasena etc of Digambara School, the Angas, and many works considered lost by Digambaras but claimed to have been preserved by the Swethambaras. Technical works like Suryaprajanapti, Chandraprajnapti, Jambudwipa prajnapti, Trilokaprajnapti etc.
The work is also important from the archeological point of view as it gives a list of 27 alphabets, including Brahmi, Kharoshti, Yavanani (Greek), Saindhava (Indus Script), Gandhara, Bolidi etc. and languages like Tebati (Tibetan), Parasa (Persion) etc.
In short the importance of this work can hardly be exaggerated for the study of Indian and world cultures. The editors by undertaking the decipherment of such a difficult work, with very little encouragement from the enlightened public, are really doing selfless work, whose significance can be realized only by a few scholars scattered all over the world, working in the field of Indological studies now and perhaps years later by the general public unless full publicity is given to this remarkable work.
Even the elucidation of the main text from the cryptic table of numbers not only great sciences, arts, works on philosophy, religion etc. I am glad to testify that the editors have to the best of their ability discharged their responsibilities, handicapped as they are by the task of financial and other assistance. It is the duty of every person and institution interested in rescuing from oblivion a great Indian heritage, to help the editors.
17. Katte Nagaraj
Siri Bhuvalaya Jayakhyana Bharata Bhagavadgita Anantha Ranga Prathisthana, Bangalore - 560076
The remarkable Kannada work called 'Siri Bhuvalaya', which is attributed to a Digambara saint Kumudendu, claims to have the 'Jayakhyana' of Vyasa (in 10,368 stanzas) and the original Bhagavadgita in five different languages, in the body of its text. Siri Bhuvalaya, which is said to be composed according to mathematical and phonetical formulae, claims that the work can be read in 718 languages and includes 363 philosophical systems and 64 kalas (arts), in fact all the arts and science of his time.
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