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.
obtained from Jayasinha protection for his co-religionists at Dhandhuka and Satyapura, who were being oppressed by the orthodox Hindoos. On one occasion Hemachandra led a great crowd of pilgrims from Anahillavâda to Girnar. The wealth of the caravan excited the cupidity of King Khengar, and things would have gone hard with the pilgrims had not Hemachandra sought and obtained an audience, in the course of which he induced the king to let the assembly go. Hemachandra starved kimself to death at Satrunjaya, He was succeeded by
(4) Srichandrasûri, Vibudhachandra and Tinni (?), of whom Srichandrasûri was the first in rank. He was staying at Broach when the Nagar Seth of the town, one Dhavala, and other pious Jain lay men came to him with Jinachandra at their head and asked him to compose a life of Munisuvrata. Hence the present book. He wrote it in the city Asâvalli, being the guest of the merchant Nagila of the Srîmâla kula. The first copy was written by Pârsvadevagani, This manuscript is dated Samvat 1418. The commentator tells
: us that he wrote in Samvat 1286, finishing The Dharmavidhi of Sri. prabhasûri with the com- his task when but two ghatikas were left mentary of Udayasinha of the tenth day of the dark half of charya.
Kârtika. He gives the following account of the text of the work. In the Chandragachchha there arose
(1) Sarvadevasûri. He was succeeded by the two teachers
(2) Suprabhadevasûri and Somaprabhasûri. The first of these is the author of Udayasinha's text, and he composed himself a commentary on it. In Samvat 1253 this commentary was lost (nashta). Suprabhadevasûri had four pupils and successors
(3) Bhuvanaratnasûri, Nemiprablasûri, Manikyaprabhasûri, and Mahimachandrasûri. With all these our commentator Udayasinhasûri stood in a relation which he specifies. The first was his dîkshậguru. The second was his maternal uncle. The third was his bikshậguru. The third was his padapratishthaguru. He adds that he was the servant of the third, Manikyaprabhasûri. His new commentary on the Dharmavidhi was corrected for him by Vinayachandra, the pupil of Raviprabhasûri. He acknowledges the assistance given to him by Vimalachandragani. The first copy of the book was written out by the pions woman Rajîmati, daughter of Somadeva, in the city Chandravatî. This Patan copy was written in the temple of Kach