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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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The Phalavatl (No, 6805) is one of the rare commentaries on tho Sūtras, preserved in this library. Dr. Burnell went to the extent of suggesting that this may perhaps turn out to be the Vitti of Opavarpa, pow known to us only by danie, but it is only a fond conjecture. The work is certainly a rare one, since no other copy of it is known to exist anywhere else. Unfortunately the copy is only fragmentary.
SABARASVĀMIN. The oldest of the available commentaries on the Sūtras of Jaimini is the Bhagya of Sabarasvāmin (Nos 6756-6769). Tradi. tion regards Sabara as the father of the founder of the Samvat Era which dates from B. C. 57. It is said that Sabara had four wives and Vikramaditya was the son of Sabara through the Kaatriya wife. This will place Sabarasvâmin somewhere in the 1st century B. O. It is said that the real name of the Bbāgyakära Was Adityadeva, but that he became known as Sabargśpåmin, on account of the fact that he hac to hide himself, from his Jain persecutors, in a forest in the guise of a śabara.
KUMĀRILA BHATTA. With Kumarila Bhatta, the Vārttikakāra, the system of PūrvaMimim så divides itself into two further subdivisions--(ie.) the Bhattam[mâmsā system and the Prābhākara-Mimāmsă system. The founder of the one was Kumārila and that of the other Prabhākara, who is generally believed to be his pupil, though some doubt it.
Of the extant worst of Kumārila the Tantravaittska alone is preserved in this library (Nos. 6770-86). The Tantravärttika is suppoved to be a commentary on the Bhänya of Sabarasvämin, (Iü to the end of lIIrd Adhyâya) but, is in fact, an independent
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