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 published there we learn that the poet Asaga was the son of Patumati and Veritti, and disciple of Arya Näganandi, and that he wiote the Kävya having been pressed fir it by one Aryanandi guru. This prasasti is not, however, to be found in the Kārañja manuscript of Vardhamana-charita. which instead bears the toilowing prasa ti of two verses :
संवत्सरे दशनवोत्तरवर्षयुक्ते भावादिकीर्तिमुनिनायकपादमूले । मौद्गल्यपर्वतनिवासधनस्य संपत्सच्छाविकाप्रजनिते सतिवाममत्त्वै ॥ विद्या मया प्रपठितेत्यसगाह्वयेन श्रीनाथ राज्यमखिलं जनतोपकारी । प्रापेच चौडविषये वरलानगया ग्रंथाष्टकञ्च समकारि जिनोपदिष्टम् ॥
This tells us that Asaga studied at the leet of Bhavakirtti muni at the Maudgalya mourtain, in the kingdom of Srinatha, and then mig ating lu the town of Varala in the Chola kingdom, he wrote eight books in the seat 910. The year is presumably to be referred to the Saha era and lience is equal to A.D. 988. The persons and Places mentioned in the prasasti are yet to be identified, and the seven books out of the tigit spoken of remain to hu brought to light. Dr Aufrecht in his Codices reports one Santināthd-purana of this author. A manuscript of this work has also been reported from Jaipur, and its prasasti as i eported is the same as that reported by Dr. Peterson, so far as the information about the author is concerned. Såntinātha-pura pa is there stated to have been written by the au, hor after the completion of Sanmati-charta oi Vardhamanacharita. If, then, the prasasti borne by the Kärañjá manuscript was written by the author along with the work itself, we must infer that Säntinātha-purāna was his cintb composition and was written after Saka 910. It is, however, possible that the Karalija prasasti was a later addition by the author not necessarily intended to be appended to any particular work, and the original prasasti of Vardhamana-charita might be the one reported by Dr. Peterson. The Karañjā prasasti has however the advantage of recording for us the date of the author and the locality in which he wrote. Vardhamana charita is a work of much poetic beauty
The Pradyumna-charita of this author has of late been
published in the Maņikachandra DigamMahasena.
bara Jaina Grantha Series" but it bears no prasasti of the author. From the prasasti attached to the Karañja manuscript of this work (cf. extract) we learn that Mahasena was honoured by king Munja, and that he wrote the work at the request of one Pappata guru, the Mahattama (a high officer) of Sindhularaja or Sindhuraja, brother and successor of Mufija, who the throne of Dhårā at least till 979 1. D. Sindhuraja was succeeded by