Madanrekha Akhyayika

SR No.: 002639
Original Sutra Author: Jinbhadrasuri
Author: Bechardas Doshi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1973
Total Pages: 304
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 15 MB

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(xiv) Municandrasuri, the author of the Anekānta-jaya-pataka-Vrttitippanaka (V. Sam. 1171) ;16
(xv) Municandrasūri, the author of the Sataka-tippanaka (V. Sam. 1334).17
Now, the data about Municandrasuri as given by the author of the MRA does not help us much, since the only features relevant to our problem are that he was one of the foremost preceptors of the Brhad-gaccha, and that both Devācārya of Kurcala-sarasvati' fame and Jinacandrasuri were bis disciples. The adjectival phrases such as gacchasya tasya bhūşaņam' (a veritable ornament of the preceptorial family-group), and 'sangha-dhuradharaṇa-dhaureyah' (the foremost carrier of the yoke of the community of the followers),18 might tempt us to identify him with the first one in the above list who founded the BỊbad-gaccha. But the complication sets in when we find that the Municandrasūri, the preceptor of Vadidevasūri, was himself a disciple of Sarvadevasūri of Brhad-gacchal9 and not that of Udyotanasūri, since it is incidentally proved that the Bșhad-gaccha had a number of ācāryas even before our Municandrasūri, who could not, therefore, be its founder. This fact rules out the Municandrasūris listed at numbers two and four, since they are different in view of their being the disciples of Ācārya Āmradeva or śānticandra and of Ācārya Dhaneśvara, respectively. Again, on the ground that Vadidevasuri, the disciple of our Municandrasūri, died in the year V.Sam. 1226,20 the other namesakes of the latter listed at numbers five to twelve can easily be eliminated from the picture, since that date can be reasonably accepted as the lower limit of our Municandrasūri. Thus, this process of elimination leaves to us but one Municandrasűri who might possibly be identified with our author's greatgrand-preceptor.
In the opinion of Shri M. D. Desal, 21 one Municandrasūri was a co-disciple of the famous “Saiddhantika-siromani" Nemicandrasūri alias Devendra-gaại, the celebrated author of the Akhyānaka-maņikośa, and the disciple of Amradevopadhyāya and the grand-disciple of Udyotanasuri of the Bphad-gaccha. If this Municandrasūri and ours be identical, they must be contemporary. This is highly probable, since Nemicandrasūri is known to
16. JPPS, p. 101. 17. Ibid., p. 130. 18. MRA, Intro. vs. 41. 19. JSSI (D), p. 241. 20. PRC, XXI, 284-285 ; PS, p. 153. 21. JSSI (D), p. 218.