Catalogue of Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscripts In the Central Provinces and Berar

SR No.: 011132
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Rai Bahaddur Hiralal
Publisher: Central Provins and Berar
Total Pages: 887
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Catalogue
File Size: 27 MB

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The author has also been culogised by the authors of Harivamka-purana and Adi-purana :
जीवसिद्धि विधायीह कृतयुक्त्यनुशासनम् । वचःसमन्तभद्रस्य वीरस्येव विजृम्भते ॥
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नमःसमन्तभद्राय महते कविवेधसे । यद्वचो वज्रपातेन निर्भिन्नाः कुमताद्रयः ॥ ४३ ॥ कवीनां गमकानाञ्च वादीनां वाग्मिनामपि । यशः सामन्तभद्रीयं मूर्ध्निचूडामणीयते ।। ४४ ॥
311a-977OT. It is easy to multiply quotations from Jain literature, showing In what veneration the author has been held since the 8th century AD. In the Svetāmbara literature the most important reference to this author is that made by Haribhadra Suri in his "Anckanta-jaya-patakā" where Samantabhadra is spoken of as "Vadi-mukhya" and two of bis verses are quoted (c. Jain Sahitya Samsodhaka, Vol. I, pp. 19-20). In the Vira Varssavali of the Sveta mbaras, Samantabhadra Suri is entered as the 16th Pontiff, who lived in 889 after Nirvana ( A.D. 419).
It i4 reported that a manuscript ol Aptamimamsa in posses. sion of Daurbali Sastri of Sravana Belgula, Mysore, bears the following colophon.-faUTAUSMÖR Tutegit: - FaifH
: hal B ATERII Samantabhadra is here said to have been a prince of Uragapur (the ancient Chola capital). If this is a lart it is strange why it should not have been reported in literature elsewhere, though the author has otherwise been so much praised.
Another name of Samantabhadra was Santivarma, as we know from the last verse (of Jain Satakalankära). Mr. Lewis Rice in the introduction to his Inscriptions at Sravana Belgula quotes seven verses from "Rainakaranda srävakachara" and assigns the work to the authorship of Āyitā varmā. But further on he speaks of Samantabhadra as the author of the work. It is not know what is Mr. Rice's authority for his above statement. It is possible that the knowledge of Ayitāvərmā as the author of Ratnakaranda śrävakachāra came to him from some, Kanarese record. II that be so, it may be conjectured that Säntivarnia and Ayitávarma were Samantabhadra's names before his initiation as a Jain monk. These two names do not appear unsuitable for