Operation In Search of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Mumbai Circle 4

SR No.: 007581
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: P Piterson
Publisher: Royal Asiatic Society
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 416
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Catalogue
File Size: 102 MB

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IN THE BOMBAY CIRCLE.
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(4) Devachandra. This teacher's Sthânakavritti (a commentary on the Sthânânga) and Sânticharita are mentioned. He was succeeded by
(5) Hemachandra.
This account of Hemachandra's spiritual lineage agrees with Râjasekhara's statements in his Prabandhakosha (see Bühler's Hemachandra, p. 10). Rajasekhara says that the Yasobhadra of the list was a Râna of Vaṭapadra, who was converted by Dattasûri. No. 9 of the Cambay Palm-Leaf MSS. is a Sânticharitra by Devasûri, who acknowledges his obligations to a Prakrit poem on the same theme by Devachandra. The prasasti goes on to relate the circumstances under which Hemachandra composed the Trishashțiśalâkapurushacharitra. One day Kumarapala (Conqueror of Chedi, Daśârna, Mâlava, Maharashtra, the Kurus and the Sindhus) the Chaulukya king of the race of Mûlaraja, a convert to Jainism, said to Hemachandra, "At thy request I have forbidden hunting, gaming, and other deadly sins throughout my dominions, and have abandoned the claims my predecessors made to the property of persons dying childless. I have adorned the earth with temples of your faith, and am become the equal of King Samprati. To please my predecessor Siddharaja you wrote your grammar and the commentary thereon. For me you have written the Yogaśâstra. For the people you have written your Dvâśraya, Chhandolank riti, Nâmasangraha and other works. Now I request you to write, that you may thereby make other converts like unto me, the lives of the Jain saints.
This Patan copy of the book was written by Ganadeva, son of Bohittha, who was son of Puna, in the Pallîvâla kula, and deposited in the Paushadha śâlâ at Cambay.
No. 50 of these Patan books is a gigantic life of the twentieth The Munisuvratasvâmi- Jain Tirthankar, in 10,994 gâthâs, the last charitra of Srichandrasûri. of which came from the author's mind in
the Śrâvana month of the Vikrama year 1121 A. D. 1065, during the sacred Paryûshana season. The author is Śrichandrasûri, commonly, though apparently wrongly, called Chandrasûri (as in my Index, where correct). He gives the following account of his spiritual lineage. After reverence done to the five last Tirthankars, Munisuvratasvâmin, Neminâtha, Nemanâtha, Pârśvanâtha aud Mahavira, he begins his own genealogy with