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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author's name has been inferred from the Mangalacharana of the work, which runs as follows.
श्रीसर्वज्ञप्रणम्यादौ लक्ष्मीवीरेन्दुसेवितम् ।
भाष्यं सिद्धान्तसारस्य वक्ष्ये ज्ञानसुभूषणम् ॥ १॥
In the introduction to the work it las been asserted that Lakshmichandra and Virachandra were disciples of the author Jhanabhashana, who has been identified with the author of Tattvajinanatarangini. This is, however, amisunderstanding which has been cleared by the prasasti found at the end of the Karanja manuscript i Sıddbåtasara-bhashya. It is as follows:
इति श्री सिद्धान्तसारभाष्यं श्रीरत्नत्रयज्ञापनार्थ सुमतीन्दुना लिखितम् ॥ अथ प्रशस्ति ।
सूरिवर श्रीमदमरकीर्तिसमुपदेशात् श्रीमूलसंघ बलात्कार गणाप्रणीः श्रीमद् भहारक श्रीलक्ष्मीचन्द्रस्तत्पदपयोधिचंचञ्चंद्रभट्टारक श्री वीरचन्द्रम्तत्पट्टालंकारभट्टारक श्रीज्ञानभूषणः श्रीसिद्धान्तसारभाष्यं भव्यजनवल्लभमुमुक्षु श्रीसुमतिकीर्ति विरचितं शोधितवान् ॥ लोकाः ।
टीका सिद्धान्तसारस्य सतांसद्ज्ञान सिद्धये । ज्ञानभूष इमां चक्रे मूलसंघविदांवरः ॥ सिद्धान्तसारभाष्यच्च शोधितं ज्ञानभूषणैः । रचितं हि सुमत्यादि. . . .
The last page of the manuscript on which the prasasti must have been continued is missing. Though some ambiguity is created by the last two verses it is sufficiently explicit from the foreg ing lines that the work was wricten by Sumatikiitti and it was only corrected and revised by his preceptor Jñanabhashana.
The difference in the genealogy of this Janabhushaņa, the preceptor of Sumatikirtti, on the one hand and that of the author of Tattva-jnanatarangint on the other leads us to the conclusion that the two are not identical, but have to be distinguished.
This is further established by the fact that Sumatik irtti wrote the Karmakanda-bhashya in V.S. 1620 and se his Siddhantasara-bhashya pugt also have been written and revised by his preceptor about this date. Thus there is a gap of about 80 years between the composition of Tattvajñanatarangini and that of Siddhantasära-bhashya. This is very probably the Sumatikirtti who was contemporaneous with Subhachandra and