Comparative Study of Mantrashastra

SR No.: 006575
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab
Publication Year: 1944
Total Pages: 376
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, L000, & L020
File Size: 21 MB

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APPENDICES: 30
339 by Sri Prītivijayaji, this very hymn is given and ascribed to Sri Mānadeva sūri, but it is not his. Sri Mānadevasūri's genuine Sūrimantrastotra is given by us in Appendix A hereto. This Manadevasūri composed Laghusantistava contained in Appendix 31. We would here reproduce verse 11 from a hymn of Sri Gautamaswami by Sri Vajraswāmi published at p. 114, Jainstotrasandoha, Pt. I, as it mentions all the presiding deities of the five Pithas in their proper order in a single verse and shows that Sūrimantra was the same in the time of Sri Vajraswami.
'श्रीमद् गौतमपादवंदनरुचिः श्री वाङ्मयस्वामिनी मर्त्य क्षेत्रनगेश्वरी त्रिभुवनस्वामिन्यपि श्रीमती । तेजोराशिरुदात्तविंशतिभुजो यक्षाधिप: श्री सुरा
धीशाः शासनदेवताच ददतु श्रेयांसि भूयांसि नः ।। We have already referred to Sri Vardhamāna-Vidya Kalpa of Sri Vajraswāmi incorporated by * Sri Simhatilakasūri (1322 Vikrama era) pupil of Sri Vibudhacandrasūri in his Vardhamāna-Vidya Kalpa as the 3rd chapter thereof. We may note here that the correct reading instead of 'r' in the 4th verse of the hymn is 'agull
APPENDIX 30 This appendix contains Anubhavasiddhamantra-Dvātrimsikā about which we offered a few remarks at pp. 159-161 ante, particularly about its connection with Vidyapravādapūrva and Jain Agamas and in relation to the probable date of the work, the lower limit of which has been stated to be the 7th century A. D. The upper limit of its date would be the date of Bhadraguptācārya and Vajraswami i. e. the 1st century A. D. As promised there we shall now make further observations especially on the question of the priority between Hemacandrācārya's Yogasastra and Subhacandrācārya's Jñānārņava alias Yogapradīpa. * Besides Vardhamănavidya-Kalpa Simhatilakasûri wrote in 1322 Vikrama era Mantrarājarahasya with Lilavati commentary and in 1326 commentary on Bhuvanadipaka (a work on the method of answering questions astrologically) of Padmaprabha and Gaņitatilakavstti.