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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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यावत् भूधरसागरा रविशशी खं भूध्रुवस्तारकाः । धर्माधर्मविचारणैकनिपुणं यावजगद राजते ।। तावद् विक्रमभूपराजविलसत्कीर्तिप्रभामिश्रितो ग्रंथोऽयं जिनशासने सुहृदयां चित्ते चिरं नंदतात् ॥५२॥
इति श्रीतपोगच्छनायक श्रोसोमसुंदरसूरिपट्टालंकार श्रीमुनिसुंदरसूरिशिष्य पंडित शुभशीलविरचिते श्रीविक्रमादित्यचरित्रे चमरहीयुगलोक्तकथाद्वयवर्णनविक्रमचरित्रराज्योपवेशनस्वर्गगमनो नाम द्वादशप्रक्रमः ॥ १२ ॥ इति श्रीविक्रमचरित्रं सपूर्ण ॥ समाप्तः
॥छ । शुभंभवतु ॥ ॥श्री॥
Reference - For details about his life the following Gujarati article of mine may be consulted:
“ Vikramaditya and Jaina Sahitya"l Hereio I have mentioned the various views regarding three questions : (i) Is Vikramāditya, the name of a ruler ? If so, which ruler out of several ones is meant here? (ii) Is • Vikramaditya' a designation - title (upādhi) of various rulers ? and (iii) Who started Vikrama era and why? In this article I have given a list throwing light on the life of Vikramāditya. It seems there is no independent non-Jaina work in Sanskrit in this connection. Only stray references occur in the following works :
Work
Author
Date 1) कथासरित्सागर (लम्भक १८) सोमदेव भट्ट
इ.स. १८१० 2) बृहत्कथामञ्जरी
क्षेमेन्द्र इ.स. १०२४ -, १०८० In Tattvakaumudi, (a comm. on Haribhadra Suri's Damsana. sattari) composed by Sanghatilaka Suri in V.S. 1422, there is a Prakrit narration of Siddhasena Divākara on pp. 139147. Herein some of the episodes pertaining to Vikramaditya are treated.
1. This is published in Jaina Satya Prakasa ( Nos. 100-102 i.e. Vol. 8,
Nos. 4-6 as • Vikrama-visesanka') 2. By the large I may add that Guņādhya may have given some information
In Pesai, (Paisaci ) in the work known in Sanskrit as Brhatkatha.
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