Kartikeyanupreksha

SR No.: 002713
Original Sutra Author: Swami Kumar
Author: A N Upadhye, Kailashchandra Shastri
Publisher: Paramshrut Prabhavak Mandal
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 594
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Religion, & Spiritual
File Size: 15 MB

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INTRODUCTION
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Jñānārnava written in Sam. 1575, i. e., A. D. 1518 was given as a gift to him. So he was living in 1518 A. D. Being an elderly contemporary and predecessor, Subhacandra refers to him in some of his works with respect.
Vijayakīrti : Jñānabhūşaņa was succeeded by Vijayakirti for whom the available dates range from Sam. 1557–68, i. e., A. D. 1500-1511. According to the Pattāvali he was expert in the Gommatasära and was honoured by Mallirāya', Bhairavarāya and Devendrarāya, local-chiefs from Karnataka,
Subhacandra: Vijayakīrti was succeeded by Subhacandra (Saṁ. 15731613, i. e., A. D. 1516-1556 ) who has really outdone his predecessors by his literary activities. A Gurvavali is published in the Jaina Siddhānta Bhā skara I. IV (Arrah) in which a line of about -103 Teachers, beginning with Guptigupta and ending with Padmanandi, is glorified. Thereins candra is numbered as the 90th teacher and praised in brilliant terms. He was a Bhattāraka at Sākavāța (mod. Sāgawādā in Rajasthan), the pontifical seat of which was subsidiary to that of Idara. At present Sāgawādā has a few Jaina families and a pretty Pathaśālā.
The extract from the Pattāvali, which is reproduced below, testifies to Subhacandra's wide learning and still wider activities. He had mastered many works on logic, grainmar, metaphysics and rhetorics. He visited different parts of the country, had a good band of disciples, defeated in disputes many logicians and possessed an accurate knowledge of his own religion as well as that of others. The passage, interesting as it is for the mention of many works studied by Subhacandra, runs thus :
"तत्पप्रकटचतुर्विधसंघसमुद्रोल्लासनचन्द्राणां, प्रमाणपरीक्षा-पत्रपरीक्षा -पुष्पपरीक्षा -परीक्षामुख-प्रमाणAura--a ?-FOTETETY-Faraon-tao-Trafd916" - 46मलमार्तण्ड"-आप्तमीमांसा -अष्टसहस्री-चिन्तामणिमीमांसाविवरण-वाचस्पतितस्वकौमुदीप्रमुखकर्कशतर्कजैनेन्द्र
1) Perhaps identical with Saluva Malli Rāya; see my paper "Jivatattva-pradipikä on Gommațasāra'in Indian Culture VII, 1, pp. 23f.
2) V. P. JOHARAPURKAR: Bhattāraka Sampradaya, Nos. 367-75, pp. 155 f. 3) Of Vidyānanda. 4) Perhaps lost to us. 5) Of Māņikyanandi. 6) Of Vădirāja. 7) Perhaps lost to us. 8) Of Prabhācandra, a com, on the Laghāy astrayam of Akalanka..
9) Of Vădirāja, a commentary on the Nyāyaviniscaya of Akalanka. ·10) Of Vidyānanda. 11) Of Akalanka. 12) Of Prabhācandra, a commentary on the Parākşāmukha above. 13) Of Samantabhadra. 14 ) Of Vidyānanda.
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