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INTRODUCTION,
Some more 'facts are directly manifested by the works of Haribhadła : (4) this use, in the last verse of most of his works, of the word viraha, which may have reference to some event in his life ; (5) his intimate knowledge not only of Jainism, but also of the teachings of heterodox systems, evinoed in his Anekantajayapataka and his Țikā of this work, as well as by his Writing a commentary on Dignāga's Nyävapraveśa ; (6) his writing a great number of works. .
It goes without saying that the contemporaries of Haribhadra knew a great deal more about his life than is contained
in the above six items, but it is equally true that in oral tradi*tion pober Kistory is apt to be gradually changed into legend,
a strange mixture of facts and fiction, which we can separate from each other with some degree of plausibility only in the simplest cases. Occasionally, however, tradition has stories of an entirely fictitious kind and originally unconuected with its hero. Thus, in the case in hand, curiosity was naturally excited, by point (4), to satisfy which a tale full of syiraculous and wholly incredible incidents is added in the legendary life of Haribhaira; it exceeds in length all remaining parts of the legend taken together ; but no reference to it is made in the oldest accounts.
Before analysing the traditions about Haribhadra's life, I'onumerate the sources from which it is known. (a) A short paragraph at the end of Municandra's Tika of
Haribhadra's Upadeja padáni; this Tika was finished • Vikrama samvat 1174 = 1118 A.D.; the passage in
question has been printod by Kalyaņavijaya l.c. p.
5a, and Jinavijaya 1.c. p. 4, note 14. (6) Eight, gåthås (52-59) in Jiradatta's Gaņaudharasárdha
bataka, written between samvat 1169 and 1211 -- 112-1164 A.D. The text is oditod in A. Weber,
Verzeichniss der Sapskrif-und Praksit-Handschriften, • II.p. 982 f. (c) The ninth Spiga of Prabhācandra's Prabhāvakacarita,
finished samvat 1334 = 1278 A.D. (the name of the "author is wrongly given xs Candaprabha on the titlo •of the N.S. edition, 1909).
| SR No. | 010741 |
| Book Title | Samraicca Kaha Vol 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hermann Jacobi |
| Publisher | Asiatic Society |
| Publication Year | 1926 |
| Total Pages | 938 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 33 MB |