Anekantajay patakakhyam Prakaranam Part 2

SR No.: 008406
Original Sutra Author: Haribhadrasuri
Author: Munichandrasuri
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1947
Total Pages: 503
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Philosophy
File Size: 11 MB

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INTRODUCTION
used to blow a conch at the time Haribhadra was to take his meals so that mendicants would assemble. On their gathering together he used to distribute food to them. After eating that food mendicants used to bow to Haribhadra who blessed them by saying: "Exert yourself to attain bhavaviraha". On hearing this blessing they used to say: "Long live, Bhavaviraha Sūri” and then they used to depart.
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In Ganaharasaḍḍhasayaga (v. 57) it is said: Some misled by the similarity of the name have wrongly asserted that Haribhadra was initiated and instructed by the Caityavāsins.
Haribhadra & S'añkarācārya1
There are differences of opinion about the date of Sankarācārya, the well-known author of S'ārīraka-bhāṣya on Bādarāyana's sutras, Some opine that he has flourished several centuries before Christ. Some place him in the fifth century A. D. The late Lokamanya Tilak has suggested in his Karmayogasastra (Gitārahasya, p. 13) that his life-period runs from Saka 710 to 742 i. e. 788 A.. D. to 820 A. D.
From the available works of Haribhadra, it appears that he has nowhere referred to Sankara. It is too much to believe that the attack of Sankara on saptabhangi in his Sárirakabhāṣya escaped the notice of Haribhadra, who, in AJP, has referred to and refuted all the misrepresentations about syādvada- the misrepresentations made by different scholars who
profit. He used to render much help to Haribhadra in writing works. In the upāśraya where Haribhadra was putting up, he had placed such a jewel that he could carry on the composition of his works even at night-time. Whatever portion was thus written on walls or slates was copied out by scribes in the morning.
1 Muni Kalyāpavijaya in his intro. to Dhammasangahani has identified him with Sankarasvamin referred to in Tattvasangrahapañjikā. But this is a slip; for, that scholar is a Naiyayika and not a Vedantin.
2 This should not be taken to imply that Haribhadra has not studied Vedanta darsana as suggested by the late Prof. Manilal N. Dvivedi in his preface to his Gujarati translation of Saddarsanasamuccaya. For, Haribhadra has not only referred to but has refuted Brahmadvaitavada in his Sastravārtāsamuccaya (v. 543-552) and in its com. (pp. 75-76).