Kavya Prakasha Khandana

SR No.: 002506
Original Sutra Author: Siddharshi Gani
Author: Rasiklal C Parikh
Publisher: Singhi Jain Shastra Shiksha Pith Mumbai
Publication Year: 1953
Total Pages: 148
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 8 MB

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INTRODUCTION
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Sanskrit Renaissance in the Moghal Period.
' I referred earlier to the Sanskrit Renaissance in the Moghal Period - particularly in the reigns of Akbar, Jahāngir and Shāhjahān. We know that Jagannātha who was given the title of Paņditarāja by Shāhjahān at the instance of Asafkhan lived in this age. Prof. V. A. Ramaswami Sastri in his work · Jagannātha Paņdita' refers to about sixteen comtemporaries of whom Kavindrācārya Sarasvati was a protege of Shāhjahān. Sri Desai in his introduction to B. C. gives an account of thirteen Jaina priests at the court of Akbar and thirteen at the court of Juhāngir --some of whom are common. The Jain writers of the age were, however, many more than these. A review of the works of Brahmanical and Jain writers of the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries would show that it was an age of vigorous literary and philosophical activity in India as a whole and as the instances of Padmasundara - author of Akabaraśāhi - Śrågāradarpaşa', Hiravijayasūri, Jagannātha, Bhānucandra, Siddhicandra and Kavindrācārya Sarasvati would prove, Sanskrit learning received encouragement and patronage in the courts of Akbar, Jahāngir and Shāhjahān. A note on Siddhicandra and Jagannātha
The parallel references given above from Rasagangādhara and a more detailed comparison of K. P. K. and R. G. would go to show that there are many ideas which S. and Jagannātha hold in common and that in several cases even phrasing is identical ; though they differ
वाग्देवीमभिवंद्य वंधचरणं वृन्दारकाणां गणैः सर्वेषां सुधियामनुग्रह धियां गंभीरभावाद्भुतम् । ध्याकरणं विदधाति वाचकपतिः श्रीसिद्धिचंद्राभिधः
शाहिश्रीमदकब्बर क्षितिपतेः प्राप्तप्रतिष्ठोदयः ॥ १ It ends: TEFTsafari armii 14 if I falar Riau garagraonluetu इति पादसाह श्री अकबर eto. श्रीसिद्धिचंद्रगणिविरचिता लघुसिद्धांतकौमुदी समाप्ता ॥ छ । लेखकपाठयो) शुभं भवतु । यादृशं पुस्तके दृष्टं cto. संवत् १७०३ वर्षे फाल्गुन शुदि २ तिथौ भृगुदिने लिखितं ॥ छ । श्रीः।
The last page 42-b. contains a seal. 1 p. 15. Jagannātha Pandita. 2 7 Ibid, (1) Khandadevamiśra, (2) Jagadiśatarkālamkāra (3) Gadādharabhatta
cārya, (4) Bhattoji Dikşita, (5) Nārāynabhatta (of Malabar) (6) Nilakantha Dikaita, (7) Rājacüdāmaņi Dikşita, (8) Venkatādhvarin. (9) Cokhanāthamakhin, (10) Dharmarājadhvarindra, (11) Ramabhadrambā, (12) Madhuravāni (13) Kavindrācāryasarasvati (14) M.M. Viśvanātha Pancānana (15:
Rāmabhadra Dikşita, (16) Madhusūdana Sarasvati. 3 pp. 1-22, Introduction to B. C. 4 See Sri M. D. Desai's Gujarati work-"Jaina Sahitya no Itibāsa" pp. 535_651. 5 Published in the Ganga Oriental Series. Bikaner 1943.