Medieval Jainism

SR No.: 011082
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhasker Anand Saletore
Publisher: Karnataka Publishing House
Total Pages: 448
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 27 MB

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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM said here that there are some statements in inscriptions as well as in literature concerning his guru and disciple which cannot be properly reconciled. Vādirāja's real name was Kanakasena Bhattāraka. He belonged to the Drāmiļa gana, Nandi sangha, and the Arungalānvaya. In his Pārsvanāthacarila he tells us that he wrote it in śaka 947 (A.D. 1025) in the reign of king Jayasimha, and that he himself was the disciple of Matisāgara whose guru was Śrīpāla.1
Only one inscription corroborates this statement made in the Pārsvanathacarita concerning Matisāgara's having been the guru of Vădirāja. This is the elaborate stone inscription in the Pārsvanātha basti at Śravaņa Belgoļa dated A. D. 1129. Here we are told that Matisāgara had two illustrious students Dayapāla muni, the author of Rūpasiddhi, and Vādirāja.
But three other records--two of them nearer in time to Vādirāja than the above inscription, and one removed give Dayapāla's other name, the title of his work, his qualifications, and expressly state that he was the disciple of Vādirāja, who himself in one record is made the disciple of Vimalacandra. While one stone inscription creates further confusion by making Dayapāla the predecessor of Vādirāja, and the latter the guru of Oļeyadeva !
These four records are the following—the Humcca Pañcabasti inscription dated A.D. 1077, hailing from the Nagar tāluka, Mysore State ; another record found in the same place which we shall style the II Pañcabasti inscription, dated also in the same year; a third record found in the same place which will be called the III Pañcabasti inscription and dated A. D. 1147; and the Grāmadabasti stone
1. E. C. II. Intr. p. 84 ; M. A. R. for 1923, p. 16. 2. E. C., ibid., 67, p. 29.