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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OPERATIONS IN SEARCH OF SANSKRIT MSS.
(1) Jayasinha, of the Praśnavahana kula and the Harshapuriyagachchha. He was succeeded by
(2) Abhayadeva. Among this sage's many virtues it is specifically mentioned that he never owned more than one suit of clothes (in two pieces) at a time, and that he was as dirty without as he was pure and purifying within. Hence bis title Maladhârin, the Filthy One. He was held in high honour by the chief men of Âmaņa and Anahil. Javâda cities; and at his request King Bhuvanapala remitted the taxes levied on the worshippers in Jain temples. At his request King Jayasinha ordered that throughout all his dominions no living thing should be put to death on these five days, the eighth and the tenth of the bright and the light halves of the month, and the fifth of the light half. Prithvîrâj, King of Sakhambharî, was one of those who listened to his teaching; and it was at his suggestion that that sovereign adorned with a golden pot the Jain temple at Ranastham. bhapura (Ranasthambore, near Ajmere). There is a long and rery poctical description of Abhayadeva's self-imposed death, and the grief caused thereby to the citizens, in the course of which it is mentioned that Salibhadra was at the head of the monks, not his immediate pupils, who thronged the room where the sage was slowly starving himself to death. They carried him to the burning place in a lordly way. He was placed on a chariot of sandalwood, and in every house in the town one man only remained, the rest accompanying Abhayadeva's funeral procession. King Jayasinha himself, accompanied by his court, stood at the western battlements of Anahilla vâda to watch the procession go past. It started with the rising of the sun; but it was afternoon before the burning place was reached. His ashes were distributed among the eager people standing round, for a protection against fever and evils of every sort. Those who could not get part of the ashes were fain to be satisfied with part of the soil on which the pyre had stood. This was the end of Abhayadeva. He was succeeded by
(3) Hemachandra. A description is given of the crowds who assembled to hear this sage expound Siddha's Upamitibharaprapancha. No single one among them failed to understand this difficult book. His Upadeśamâlâ, Bhavabhavana, Anuyogadvâravșitti, Jîvasamâsa, Satakavritti, Mâlâ vaśyakavritti and Višesbakasútravritti, the last two of 5,000 verses and 28,000 verses respectively, are referred to. King Jayasinha came in person to attend his lectures. He