Risht Samucchaya

SR No.: 002800
Original Sutra Author: Durgadevacharya
Author: A S Gopani
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1945
Total Pages: 290
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 16 MB

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THE RISTASAMUCCAYA sunrise. There is another consideration also and it is this that there is some possibility of error in calculating and on this ground we can neglect so short a period as seventy-two minutes
and suppose Mūla to be occupying the whole day. Thus the s custom of naming the constellation of the day after that constellation which is at the time of sunrise will also not be violated. The reasons for taking the year mentioned as one of the Vikrama Samvat are many. In the first place it was customary with the authors to mention the word Saka, if they meant Saka Samvat'. 10 Thus in absence of any specific hint, the usually accepted Samvat is the Vikrama Samvat. Secondly the author's use of the Pūrnimānta months not only strengthens my inference that he was a Northerner but it also proves that the Samvat used by him
is the Vikrama Samvat and not the Sakaļ. Thirdly, it was the 1s Vikrama Samvat that was current in the Western and Northern
India. Swamikannu PILLAI's statement to the effect that in the Śaka Era the months used were generally Amūnta but Pūrni mānta in Northern India has got to be interpreted only contextually in view of Kailaora's decisive conclusion on inscriptional 2o evidence that the months used in the Saka Samvat were almost always Amänta'. Thus the year 1089 used by our author is to be taken as the year of the Vikrama Samvat and we should have no objection in believing that the actual moment of the completion of the RS fell within the period of Mūla which 25 occupied the whole day excepting initial seventy-two minutes.
(iv) DURGADEVA'S OTHER Works:(a) Arghakānda: I have mentioned before that Durgadeva had written the Arghakānda also". The line अर्घकांडं दुर्गदेवीयं अ. १०-१४७ occurring in the BT bears it out". Moreover, the first two stanzas of the Ms. prove
1 Acharya Jinavijaya: Kuvalayamālā, BV (English), Vol. 2, Pt. 1, p. 87; 26th stanza:
सगकाले वोलिणे वरिसाण सएहि सत्तहि गएहिं । एकदिणे णूणेहिं रइया अवरण्हवेलाए ॥
(Ms. of the Kuvalayamālā). 2 See Notes on st. 235, p. 89 as well as IE, Vol. I, Part I, p. 53,
3 IE, loc. cit; Acharya Jinavijaya: Kuvalayamala, BV (English) Vol. 2 ; Pt. 2, p. 218
4 IE, loc. cit. 5 1A, 1896, pp. 271f. 6 See footnote 4 on page 5 of the Intro. 7 Ibid;