Catalogue of Palmleaf Manuscripts in Santinatha Jain Bhandara 02

SR No.: 010183
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Punyavijay
Publisher: University Publication Baroda
Publication Year: 1966
Total Pages: 310
Language: Hindi
Classification: Catalogue
File Size: 10 MB

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it had been broken off when Palinagara in Rajasthan was plundered and that the missing portions were re-written at Ajayameru (mod. Ajamer in Rajasthan) in V S 1207 in order to compensate for the damage.
These post-colophon entries sometimes help us in determining the date of certain authors In this regard may be cited such an entry at the close of a ms of the tenth Parvan of Hemacandra's Trisastıśalākāpurusacarita, no. 189 of the present catalogue, with the help whereof the date of Sumatı Sadhu, the author of the Laghu-vyth on the Daśavaikālikasūtra, can be decided. It informs us that the Sanderagaccha was started by Acārya Śāntisuri who originally belonged to the Añcalagaccha, that this ācārya had a disciple named Yasobhadrasūri who abstained from such vikytis as ghee, oil etc from his very childhood, which fact was accepted by king Mularāja, and that Sumatı Sadhu, the author of the Daśavarkalika-laghu-vylt, was a disciple of Kşemarsi who, on his part, was a disciple of this Yasobhadrasūri. From this information we can conclude that Sumati Sadhu flourished in the eleventh century of the Vikrama Era. Likewise Balacandrasuri's commentary on the Vivekamañjari Prakarana (no. 176 of the present catalogue; D.C. 1278 V.S.) refers to Asada's commentary on the celebrated poem Meghaduta,
These ancient manuscript-collections indeed supply significant information regarding a number of dynasties, families, gacchas, ācāryas, Hindu and Muslim sovereigns, ministers and wealthy personages as also about such celebrations as those of erection of temples, of installation of images and of conferring of the status of an ācārya upon certain worthy personages, and such information enhances the importance of these collections as well as of their detailed catalogues
Pertaining to the Jñana-bhandara at Khambhāta, we may say that this collection was formed, at the instance of the Jaina preceptors especially of the Tapagaccha, by placing together small collections traditionally handed down through generations of preceptors and certain manuscripts prepared-and certain purchased-at the instance of several ācāryas. It also contains a number of mss. prepared by scribes employed by the Jaina Sangha at Vijapura (North Gujarat).
To state a few peculiarities of this collection, a reference may at first be made to ms. no. 36 entitled Mahāmsithasutra This ms, probably written in the thirteenth century of the Vikrama Era, was prepared by a scribe employed by a Jaina votary of the Khadāyată caste. It appears from this fact that the Jaina faith had its followers in that caste also It may be noted by the by that we do get references to certain Khadāyatā Jaina ācāryas in ancient pattakas. Now-a-days there are no Jainas among the Khaḍāyatā vaņık caste of Gujarāt.