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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a prince of the Chola kingdom. In thc Prasasti of Loka Vibhaga mention is found of a king of Kanchi named Simhavarma, who ruled in Saka year 330 (cf. Jain Hitaishi, Vol. XIII., PP. 525-526).
Siddhasena Divakara, author of " Nyäyávatāra", deserves Siddhasena Diväkare mention along with Samaptabhadra. It is
*a short handbook on Jain logic which Dr. Satisachandra Vidyabhūshaņa considers to be the earliest work of the kind. It contains thirty-two slokas. Siddhasena is said to have written thirty-two such works, dealing with Jain logic and pbilosophy. Twenty-one of these have already been published in the "Bhāvanagar Siddhasena Granthamäla". The Karanjā manuscripts include two works of this author, vis., (1) Sammatitarka and (2) Kalyāna-inandira stotra. The first is in Prakrit-the only work of Siddhasena that is in Prakrit. The bare text of this work also has appeared in the above-named series. The Karañjā manuscript of it bears an extensive commentary in Sanskrit by Abhavadera Suri, pupil of Pradyumna Sari (cf. extracts. His successor according to Svetambara Pattavalis, was Jinesvara Sūri, who was a contemporary of Munja of Dhara. Hence our commentator must have lived about A.D. 1000. He is also the author of another work "Vadamaharnava" written with the express object of saving the right path from the flow of the streams of various conflicting views". Kalyanamandira of Siddhasena is a very popular hymo in praise of Parávanātha. Among the Karanja manuscripts there are two commentaries on it, one by Gumasagara, pupil of Sagarendra, pupil of Vadiśvaradeva, and the other by Tapacharya. The latter prefaces his work by narrating the tradition about Siddhasena's parentage and conversion. A part of it might be quoted here:
तत्रादौ कल्याणमन्दिरस्तवस्योत्पत्ति वर्ण्यते। श्रीउज्जयिन्यां श्रीविक्रमस्य पुरोधसः पुत्रो देवसिकाकृक्षिभूः सिद्धसेनो वादीन्द्रो पावार्य भूगुकच्छपुरंगतः । मुकुंदेति पूर्वनामानो वृद्धवादिगुरवः सन्मुखाः संजाताः। गोपसमक्षं वादे ससंस्कृतं जल्पमकरोत् । नकिञ्चिदिति गोपैरुक्तं । गरवः
The specch made by the "gurus" is hall Prakrit, half verna. cular. The text of it is unfortunately too corrupt for reproduction here. When it was ended the shepherds exclaimed victory in favour of " Vriddha Vadi". Siddhasena then became the former's disciple and was given the name of Kumudachandra. Later on when he became a Sari he assumed the name