Shatkhandagama Pustak 02

SR No.: 001396
Original Sutra Author: Pushpadant, Bhutbali
Author: Hiralal Jain, Fulchandra Jain Shastri, Devkinandan, A N Upadhye
Publisher: Jain Sahityoddharak Fund Karyalay Amravati
Publication Year: 1940
Total Pages: 568
Language: Prakrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, & Karma
File Size: 12 MB

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are available to us, we find that the Subhacandradeva to whom the Ms. of Dhavala was given is identical with that Subhacandradeva whose death is commemorated in Sravana Belgola inscription No. 45 (117) of 1123 A. D., because the spiritual geneology of Subhacandra as given at the two places agrees entirely. We even find three verses that are common between our Prasasti and the inscription, the numbers of these verses in the inscription being 12, 18 and 21. The Banniyakere temple with which Subhacandradeva, the recepient of the Ms, has been associated, was built, according to Shimoga inscription No. 97 (Ep. Carus. Vol. VII) in 1113 A. D. In this inscription Bhujabalaganga Permadideva, also mentioned in our Prasasti, makes a grant to the temple, and at the close of the record Subhacandradeva of Desigana is praised. Thus, the temple of Banniyakere with which Subhacandradeva was associated was built in 1113 A. D., while he died in 1123 A. D. The Ms. of Dhavala was, therefore, presenterl to Subhacandradeva by Demiyakka between 1113 and 1123 A. D.
We also get some light about the donor of the Ms. from epigraphic records. Sravana Belgola Inscription No. 49(129) is in commemoration of a lady variously named as Demati, Demavati Devamati and Demiyakka, who is said to have been a pupil of Subhacandradeva of Desigana and to have died by the Jaina form of renunciation on the 11th day of the dark fortnight in Saka 1042 (A. D. 1120). In the inscription the lady is highly eulogised for her four forms of charity which included gifts of shastras or holy books. These mentions leave no doubt in our mind that this lady is the same as the donor of the Dhavala Ma. The date of the gift is, therefore, brought within closer limits i. e. between 1113 and 1120 A D.
The upshot of the above discussion is that we are confronted with three facts about Dhavala Ms. namely
1. A copy of the Dhavala was made probably about three generations prior to the death of Devakirti Muni in 1163 A. D., i e. about 1100 A D.
A Ma. of Dhavala was presented to Subhacandradeva by lady Demiyakka sometime between 1113 and 1120 A. D.
3. A palm-leaf Ms. of Dhavala making mention of the above fact and indienting fact No. 1 exists at Mudbidri.
The probability in my mind is that it was the present palm leaf Ms, at Mudbidri which was copied by a pupil of Kulacandra and presented by Demiyakka to Subhacandradeva. But the possibility of the object of Demiyakka's gift being a later copy of the first Ms. and the present Ms. being a still more subsequent copy of the second, mechanically reproducing the eulogistic verses and the Prasastis of the former ones, cannot be entirely precluded until the present palm-leaf Ms. at Mudbidri is thoroughly examined from all points of view internally as well as externally.
2. Is Vargana Khanda included in the available
Mss. of Dhavala ?
The six main divisions of the present work, on account of which it aequired the title of Satkhandagama, were Jivatthana, Khuddabandha, Bandhasamitta-vicaya,