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Nyaya : Svetambara works
Author.-- Rājasekhara Sūri, pupil of Śritilaka of Harsapuriya
gaccha. Rajasekhara made a pratiştha at Patan in Samvat 1418. See Buddhisagara Suri's Dhātupratimälek hasam. graha I, No. 227. His guru, too, had made prarişthas on Mount Abu in Samvat 1378 as can be seen from Jinavijaya's Prācina-Jaina-lehasamgraha, vol. II, Nos. 144 and 145.
Over and above this work two more works of this Rajasekhara Sūri may be mentioned. They are: (1) Prabandhakośa also known as Caturvimsatiprabandha composed in Sam. 1405 and his Pañjikā on Sridhara's Nyāyakandali. See Peterson Reports III, p. 272ff. In this connection Prot. H. D. Velankar has given his spiritual geneology as under:
Jayasimha Sūri-Abhayadeva ( who was called Maladhari by King Karņa, who advised Khengåra of Saurāşțra and converted Pradyumna, the king's minister -Hema. candra-Śricandra and Vibudhacandra-Municandra (who converted King Anala of the Caulukya dynasty )-Devaprabha ( author of Pāņdavacaritra and Dharmasāra )Naracandra (author of Anarghyarāghavațippaña', Kandalițippaņa, Jyautişasāra and Prākstadipika )- Narendraprabha ( author of Alamkāramahodadhi and Kakutstha
keli ) – Padmadeva –Śritilaka - Rājasekhara. Subject--An explanatory gloss on Ratnakarāvatārikā. This gloss is
* styled by the author himself as vivști and pañjikā as well. Begins.-fol. 18
उबंतांशुर्देशनायां पातु वः प्रथमो जिनः ।
#g igai TIT ET(haran llll जयंतु गौतमागास्ते येऽपवर्ग गता अपि ।
TITO Sairat Arcufa:112.11 नंदति गुरषोऽस्माकं वात्सल्यामृतसिंधवः। मलधारिंगणाधीशा श्रीश्रीतिलकसूरयः॥३॥
1 Two Mss. of this țippaņa are described in the Descriptive Catalogue of Nataka Mss. (vol XIV ) as Nos. 15 and 16. There the author Naracandra Suri is mentioned as a pupil of Maladhárin.
