Gandharwad

SR No.: 011044
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Jain Granth Prakashak Sabha
Publication Year: 1942
Total Pages: 579
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 63 MB

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composition either from the portion in the beginning or one at the end.16
(v) Viseṣaṇavah:-This book is a miscellaneous work comprised into nearly 400 Prakrit verses and is not publishdd as yet.
In addition to the above-mentioned five works, some people consider Dhyana-s'ataka which has been incorporated by Acarya Maharaja Haribhadra Suri in his commentary on the Āvas'yaka Sūtras, also to be the composition of Jinabhadra Gani Ksama-s'ramana. But there are not sufficient evidences to convince us of his authorship of Dhayana-S'ataka. (c) Date:
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There are no definite means that help us to fix the exact date of Jinabhadra Gani kṣama-s'ramana. Still, however, the tradition of various Pattavalis throws considerable light on the problem. The tradition of the Patṭāvalis written after the sixteenth century (V. S.) tells us that Jinabhadra Gani kṣamās ramana flourished 1115 years after the Nirvana of S'ramana Bhagavān Mahāvîra. This fixes the date somewhere about 645 V. S.
There is another theory which assigns to Jinabhadra Gani 500 years earlier than his commentator Maladhari Hemacandracārya who is said to have flourished in 1175 V. S. According to this theory also, Jinabhadra Gani kṣama-s'ramana must have flourished somewhere about 650-675 V. S.
The author of Tapagaccha Paṭṭavali places Jinabhadra Gani kṣama-s'ramana as the contemporary of Acarya S'rîmān Haribhadra Suri who is said to have written a commentary
16. At the end of this bhasya the only reference is this:-- सं. १७२० वर्षे मार्गशीर्ष शुदि १ शुक्रवासरे अद्यहे श्रीपत्तने लि० श्री मोढ ज्ञातिना काशीदासात्मजेन अंबादत्तेन । शुभं भवतु | शिवमस्तु |
(Jita Kalpa Sutra Preface P. 17)
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