Deshbhushanji Aacharya Abhinandan Granth

SR No.: 012045
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: R C Gupta
Publisher: Deshbhushanji Maharaj Trust
Publication Year: 1987
Total Pages: 1766
Language: Hindi, English
Classification: Smruti_Granth & Articles
File Size: 56 MB

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Sumatiharsa Gani and Some Other Jaina Jvotisis
-Prof. David Pingree
Sumatiharsa Gani was a member of the Añcalagacchal who flourished in Rajasthan in the early seventeeth century. Between about 1610 and 1621 he composed commentaries on a number of jyotisa texts; in this paper, which is based on the information given at the beginning and end of the surviving commentaries, on a perusal of those manuscripts presently accessible to me, and on the colophons, an attempt is made to elucidate the history of his life and to establish bis relationships to other members of the Añcalagaccha.
His surviving works are the following:
I. A vșitti on the Vivāhapatala composed by Brahmārka or Brahmāditya of the Vālalya family before 1605, the date of the oldest known manuscript; this Brahmaditya may be identical with the author of the Prašnajñana, also named Brahmärka or Brahmāditya, who was the son of Mokşeśvara and the grandson of Jyotiḥsüdana;3 he belonged to the Balambha (read Bālalya ?) family. For the Vivāhapatalavrtti I have used the fragmentary manuscript at Harvard, Sanskrit 405, which consists of ff. 5-16 and 18-19 containing I 14-111 41 and III 45-V 10. The colophons to this manuscript, which begin : ity amcalikamahopadhyāyaśri 5 sriharsaratnaganinām sisyapamditavādirājasumatiharsaratnaganiviracitāyām, inform us of the fact that Sumatiharsa's teacher was the obscure Mahopadhyaya Harsaratna Gani. The only indication of a date in this manuscript is a horoscope which can be dated 5 October 1576 and provides an early terminus post quem; one wonders if it is the horoscope of Sumatiharsa himself (it is entitled simply srijan malagnam).
Planets
Text (sidereal)
Computation (tropical)
Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Node
Sagittarius Leo Capricorn Libra Libra Libra Pisces Aries
Sagittarius 26° Virgo 6° Aquarius 7° Libra 22° Libra 25° Libra 25° Pisces 27° Aries 30°
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This gaccha, founded in 1166, had branches at Jaisalmer, Udayapura, Jirāuala in Sirohi, and Nagara in Marwar, as well as at other localities in Rajasthan; see K.C. Jain, Jainism in Rajasthan, Sholapur 1963, p. 59. D. Pingree, Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit (henceforth CESS), Philadelphia 1970 and following, A4, 261b. CESS, A4, 2610-262b.
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जैन प्राच्य विद्याएं