Samraicca Kaha Vol 01

SR No.: 010741
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

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INTRODUCTION.
liko member of this olan Nimaya, was induced by Vanerkja (746-806 A.B.) to settle in his new capital AnahillapĂtaka, and that he there erected a temple of Reabha for the Vidyadharagaccha. Since Haribhadra, the organizer of the Poroval olan, belonged to the Vidyadharagaccha', it is likely that that clan owed some sort of allegiance to that gaccha, whereof the statement in the Neminthacariu seems to furnish a proof.-Although Haribhadra may have lived for the greater part of his life in Guzerat and the adjoining States of Rajputana, yet hi swanderings as a yati probably extended to far distant parts of India. Some hints about his knowledge of India may be gathered from the Samarãiccakaha. In this regard it is significant, that he does not lay the scene of any of his tales in one of the renowned towns of the Deccan or Southern India", but all towns that can be identffied", are situated in Northern India, from HastiDāpura to Tâmralipt. He evinces a more intimate acquaintance with Eastern India between Ayodhyâ and Campi; in these countries, Buddhism was still flourishing, and it is, therefore, possible that Hatibhadra there acquired his acourate knowledge of Buddhist philosophy, especially as taught by Dignāga and 'Dharmakirti..
"That Haribhadra was a Brahman by caste is mtated in e and implied.in c, where he is said to have been the purohita of king Jitāri.". Though there is no such statement in a and 6, I have no doubt that it is true For the learning peculiar to Hari.
For he calls his teacher Jinschatta un ornament of the Vidyadhara. gaocha. Actording to Harshanandanagani (2016 A.D.) ho was a member of vfddha-gaccha, see Kalyānavijaya I.c., p. 11h.
The cause of his want of acquain Mance with Peninsular Indis was probably the circumstance that in his time there were fow, if any, Svetambara communities south of the Tapti.
3 Those in the fabulous country of Aparavideha, of course, do not concern us.
4 Kalyanavijays Lc., p. ba, note
3 Apparently a fictitious namo standing for Jitabatru, the usual namo of the king in countless legends and stories of the Jainas, but never mat with, as fes I know, in any historical document, inscription, etc. The name is absent in the list of the Guhila kings of Mowed, see Mabel Dal, Chronology of India, p. 282.