Life of Hemchandracharya

SR No.: 006501
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Manilal Patel
Publisher: Singhi Jain Shastra Shiksha Pith Mumbai
Publication Year: 1936
Total Pages: 124
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, History, & Literature
File Size: 9 MB

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The same story is told in the Komarapalacarita pp. 264, L
87. Prabankacintamani pp. 216, 219, 231, 232, 238, Jinamandana repeats the accounta of his predecessors and gives us nothing new of importance, except that, on p. 282, he brings the number of restorations made by Kumarapala up to 16,000.
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राजमन्दिरमालोक्य भुवोमुन [ मोन्त ] स्ततिहर्षिताः । देवतावसरस्थानं प्रापुर्बिम्बं तथार्हतः ॥ ८१७ ॥ आनीतं च विभो राजधानीमतिशयोत्सवैः । स प्रवेश [] दुधे तस्य सौधदैवतवेश्मनि ॥ ८१८ ॥ प्रासादः स्फाटिकन तयोग्यः पृथिवीभृता । प्रारेमेथ निषिद्धश्च प्रभुभिर्भाविवेदिभिः ॥ ८१९ ॥ राजप्रासादमध्ये च न हि देवगु [गृ]हं भवेत् । इथगान्या [माज्ञा ] मनुल्लङ्घय न्यवर्तत ततो नृपः ॥ ८२० ॥ एकातपत्रतां जैनशासनस्य प्रकाशयत् [ ५ ] ।
मिथ्यात्वशैलवज्रं श्रीहेमचन्द्रप्रभुर्बभौ ॥ ८२१ ॥
88. The minister Yas'odhavala is mentioned in the colophon at the bottom of a MS. of the Kalpacuri, Kielhorn, Report, App., p. 11. Somes'vara in the Prasasti (Kirtikaumudi App. A., pp. 5 and 14, verse 35) tells us of Yas'odhavala, the Paramara prince of Candravati and Acalagadh, that he fought with Kumarapala against Malva and killed king Ballala. The Prabhavakacaritra knows that he was placed upon the throne by Kumarapala after the sentence of his uncle Vikramasimha. Vikramasimha is not mentioned by Somes'vara, but, on the other hand, he is mentioned in the Dvyasrayamahākavya. The princes of Candravati were not very powerful, and were vassals of the Caulukyas in the 12th and 13th centuries. It is therefore not improbable that Yas'odhavala was for a time Kumarapala's Pradhan. About Kapardin, soo, for instance, Prabandhaointamani pp. 226-230; sccording to the Prabandhakopa, p. 102, he was a Paramara-Rajput.
89.
Unfortunately I am not in a position to make quite exact statements as to the extent of this work, as I have only been able to see a few extracts, the Jainaramayana printed in Calcutta, the Paris istuparean published by H. Jacobi in the Bibliotheca Indica, and the MS. of the Royal Asiatic Society, which contains the eighth Parvan. The MS. of the Deccan College, No. 47, Coll. of 1874/75, in which ths Parvans I, II, IV are missing, is written upon 715 leaves, with 15 line on a sido The Cambay-Bhandar contains palm-leaf MSS. of Parvan I (Peterson, First Rep., p. 87), II (Peterson, First Rep., p. 19), III (Peterson, First Rep. A., p. 11, Third Rep. A., p. 124), VII (Poterson, First Rep. A., p. 23, Third Rep., A., p. 145 ), VIII (Peterson, First Rep. A., p. 34, Third Rep, A., p. 144), X (Peterson, First Rep. A., p. 35) and of the Paris'islaparvan (Peterson, First Rep., p. 35) Jinamandana's account is to be found in the Kumarapalacarita p. 235, line 16 and is probably approximately correct.
90. I discovered this work (see Report on S. MSS. 1879/80, pp. 2,5) in a MS., where it follows the text of the Sanskrit Deyae'rayakdeya. As regards other MSS., see Paterson, Third Rap, p. 19 and Kielhorn, Report for 1880/81, p. 77, No. 374. It contains only 950 slokas together with the Commentary. Quotations from it are to be found in Jinamayana, Kumarapalacarita p. 194. The latter are the only parts of the little work, which are now available to me.
91. See Bühtlingk and Rieu, Abhidhanacintamani p. VII.
92. The verses in question, according to my copy from No. 702, Deccan College Collection
1875/77, road
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श्री हेमसूरिशिष्येण श्रीमन्महेन्द्रसूरिणा । भक्तिनिन डीके तामेव प्रतिहिता ॥ १५