समयसार (प्राकृत गाथा एवं हिन्दी-अंग्रेजी व्याख्या)

FOREWORD
Kundakundacharya needs no
introduction. He graced the
country with his divine presence in the
first century B.C. His great book
Samayasāra has 400-odd verses.
Nothing surpasses the excellence of
Samayasāra which is self-contained,
self-determining, self-sufficient, pure
and perfect Super-Self. The soul is the
sole determinant of its own pure psychic
status. The soul never loses its soulhood.
Kundakundacharya is an unquestioned
authority of Jaina dogmatics; and his
position, especially among the Jain
Teachers and Authors of the South, is
unique. His very name has an auspicious significance, to be enumerated
next only to that of Mahavira and Gautam Ganadhara. All his works are
available in Prākrit which borders on Ṣaurseni and contains some traits
of Ardha-māgadhi and hence called Jain-Ṣaurseni.
For example –
जो हि सुदेणहिगच्छदि अप्पाणमिणं तु केवलं सुद्धं।
तं सुदकेवलिमिसिणो भणंति लोयप्पदीवयरा॥ (1-9-9)
The saints (who are) the expounders of the Universe, call him a knower of
scripture, who in reality, from knowledge of the scriptures, knows this
very soul (to be) absolutely pure.
Commentary: The author points out that although a Shruta-Kevali has
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