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A GIST OF HINDI INTRODUCTION
FOR ENGLISH READERS.
According to Digambar Tradition the canon of the twelve Angas is forgotten but whatever of it has survived is preserved in the
ancient scriptures known as Satkhandāgama, Kasāya The contents of this edition.
Pāhuda and Mahābandha. On the first two of these
works Swāmi Virasenachārya of the 9th century A.D. wrote commentaries termed as Dhayalā and Jayadhavala. The Dhavala has been edited by Prof. Hirā Lāl Jain of Amaraoti and is being published in parts. As for the Jayadhavalā, its first part is before the readers. This edition contains the text of Kasāya Pāhuda, its Chūrni Sutras, and the exhaustive Commontary on both, known as Jayadhavalā.
Achārya Gunadhar first wrote the Kasāya Pāhuda in Gāthā sutras. Swami Virsen, the writer of the Jayadhavalā says that
Acharya Yati Vrishabha wrote Churni Sutras on the Dates of Kasāya Kasāya Pahuda after studying at the feet of Arya Pahud, Churni Sutras Mankshu and Nāghasti who were the perfect and Jayadhavalā.
knowers of the traditional meaning of the Kasāya Pahuậa. Virsen further says that Achārya Gundhar lived some time about 683 after Vir Nirvāna. After comparing this date with the succession list given in Prākrit Pattāvali of Nandi Sangh and making a critical discussion on the references to Arya Mankshu and Nāgahasti found in Shvetambar Jain succession lists and also having discussed the date of Yati Vrishabh in Hindi introduction we have concluded that Kasāya Pāhuda was written either in the second or in the third century A.D. And Acharya Yati Vrishabha lived most probably in the sixth century A.D. Now as for the date of the commentary Jayadhavalā, the ending verses of it show that it was completed in 759 Shaka Samvat (that is 894 A.D.)
From the ending verses of the commentary as well as from other sources also it becomes clear that Swami Virsen died before the
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