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 story of the journey is omitted because the majority of the versos are very badly damaged. It is in verses 38-46. Merutunga makes his account much shorter. The end of the passage, as given ubuve, in Note 15, reads:
अथ च कुम्भयोनिरिवाप्रतिमप्रतिभाभिरामतया समस्तवाङ्मयाम्बोधिमुष्टिंधयोभ्यस्तसमस्तविद्यास्थानो हेमचन्द्र इति गुरुदत्तनाम्ना प्रतीतः सकलसिद्धान्तोपनिषनिषण्णधीः षट्त्रिंशता गुणैरलंकृततनुर्गुरुभिः सूरिपदेभिषिक्तः । इति मन्त्रयुदयनोदितं जन्मप्रभृति वृत्तान्तं आकर्ण्य नृपतिर्मुमुदेतराम् ॥
Therefore Merutunga does not know the second name Somacandra. His assertion that Udayana related the story of Hemacandra's youth to King Kumāra pāla contains a serious anachronism. As Udayana immigrated to Gujarat in the Vikrama-Samivat 1150, and as Kumārapāla ascended the throne in the Vikram year 1199, and is supposed to have waged several wars before this conversation took place, Udayana could not have still been alive.
Jinamandana, Kum. Car. P. 31, line 12 up to p. 36, line 5, reports a good deal, but merely absurd stories, about Hemacandra's apprenticeship-time. He relates, (pp. 31-42), that Somadeva received tha name Homacandra because, at the beginning of his apprenticeship, he transmuted coal into gold (Hema) at the house of a S'resthin named Dhana. Then he contradicts himself on p. 36, where he agrees in the main with the Prabhāvakacaritra. Then, instead of one journey of Somadeva's and one supernatural apparition, he speaks of two. The first journey was to be to Kās'mir, and the second to the Gauda land in company of a Devendra and of the famous cemmentator Malayagiri. On the first occasion the goddess Sarasvati appears, and on the second s'āsanadevată. Finally we hear that a merchant, named Dhanada, had the honour of an Acarya given to Somadeva in the Vikrama year 1166 with the consent of his Guru and of the Samgha. The date occurs three times in Jinamandana, is the same each time, and agrees with that of the already-mentioned verse of the Prabhāvakacaritra, c. also Bhindirkar, Report on the Search etc. 1883/84, p. 14.
23. Alankiracüdāmani I, 4: मन्त्रादेरौपाधिके ॥४॥ मनदेवतानुग्रहादिप्रभवीपाधिकी प्रतिभा । इयमप्यावरणक्षयोपशमनिमित्तैव दृष्टोपाधिनिबन्धनत्वात्त्वौपाधिकीत्युच्यते ॥ 24. Prabhāvakacaritra XXII, 64-73:
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