Catalogue of Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscript in the Central Provinces and Berar

SR No.: 011136
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Total Pages: 491
Language: English
Classification: Catalogue
File Size: 36 MB

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From the prasasti, we get the following genealogy of the author :
Kundakundáchālya
Srikirtti
Srutakirtti
Gunā karakirtti
Virachandra
Srichandra (the author ). As already observed, we have recently been given notice of the
publication in Roman characters with Dhanapāla
an introduction in German of the Bhavislıyadatta-charita of Dhanapala. In the Senayana temple collections two complete manuscripts of this work were found amongst a heap of incomplete and rotten manuscripts bundled apart as waste. One of these is dated Kärttika Sukla 5, Samvat 1593, and the other Kärttika Sakla 5, Blaumavāra, Samvat 1500. Thic work is completed in 23 sandhis or chapters and 3.500 Slokas. It opens with a verse in Seratha chhanda. There is no mention of any date or author's genealogy except that his father was Mabesvara and motlicr Dhanasri anal that he belonged to Dhakkada family of the Vaiśya castc. Though this account does not help us in determining the date of the author, it at any rate makes it clear that he has to be distinguished from the author of Tilaka-manjari and that of Paiya-lachchhināma-māla, who lived in the IIth century A.D. Nthing certain can be said except that our author also probably belonged to the same period,
This author in the pravasti o his wuih Sudarsala-charita Nayanandi.
tells us that he wrote it in V.S. 1100
(A. D. 1043) during the reign of Bhojadeva of Dhārā (cf. extract). By the life account of a religious hero it illustrates the mahatmy of Navakāra mantra, The work consists of twelve chapters. The author's spiritual genealogy is as follows:--
Kundakundácharya
Padmanandi
Rāmanandi
Māņikyanandi
Nayanandi (the author ).