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As the work just dealt with is the Jain version of Ramayana Jinasena (1). similarly the earliest Jain version of Mahabharata is furnished to us by the Harivamsaparapa. For an analysis of this work Dr. Rajendralal Mitra's Notices of Sanskrit manuscripts, Vol. VI, p. 74, may be consulted. A long extract from the work has been published by Dr. Peterson in his IV Report, pp. 167-177. From verse 52 there, we know that Jinasena wrote in the Saka year 705 A.D 783, when Indra Sri Vallabha, the son of Krishna (1), was reigning in the South, Vatsaraja at Avanti (Ujjain ), and Varaha Vira in Saurya mandala. In the Mangalacharana, which Dr. Peterson has omitted to quote in full, Jinasena pays his tribute to Samantabhadra (the author of Jivasiddhi and Yuktyanusāsana), Siddhasena, Indra, Chandra, Arka and Deva (Devanandı), the grammarians: Vajra Sari, Mahasena (the author of Sulochanakatha), Ravishena (the author of Padma-purana), Varangacharita, Kumarasena, Virasena and Jinasena. The mention of the last two names has given rise to a controversy as to the relation between Jinasena, the author of Harivamsapurana, and Jinasena, the author of Adi-purana, about whom we shall know more presently. It has been suggested that the reference above is to the author of Harivamsa-purana and hence he is one with the author of Adi-purana. But the difference in the dates of composition of the two works is at least 50 years which makes their authorship by the same person very improbable. Again, the genealogies of the two authors are different. The author of Harivamsa-purana was the pupil of Kirttishena who belonged to Punnatagan, while the author of Adi-purana was the pupil of Virasena who belonged to the Senagana. Also the manner in which Jinasena has been referred to in Harivamsa-purana shows that the author is referring to a person other than himself The verse is
यामिताभ्युदये तस्य जिनेन्द्रगुणसं स्तुतिः । स्वामिनो जिनसेनस्य कीर्तिः संकीर्तयत्यसौ ॥
An author indulging in these terms in regard to himself would certainly be accused of being over-presumptuous. But there arises another complication when we prove the two authors to be different. If we accept the date of the completion of the work as given by the author, the mention of Virasena and Jinasena cannot refer to the authors of Jayadhavala tika and Adi-purana respectively, for they are known to have lived after the date of Harivamsa-purana. To obviate this difficulty we must suppose that two other Acharyas of those names lived before the composition of Harivamśa-pura pa.
For a briet analysis of the author's Adi-purana, see Dr. Bhandarkar's Report of 1883-84. The Jinasena (11). work has since become too well known to