Swayambhuchand

SR No.: 023463
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H D Velankar
Publisher: Rajasthan Prachyavidya Pratishtan
Publication Year: 1962
Total Pages: 292
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 22 MB

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स्वयंभूच्छन्दः
[INTRODUCTION
1909. Our ms. is 12 x 11 inches in size, each page containing about 6 lines, each line having about 60 letters in it, as described by Prof. K. K. Shastri, who prepared a copy of it in 1943 for Muni Shri Jinavijayaji, at present Director, Rajasthan Puratattva Mandir, Jaipur. It is dated Samvat 1179 and is said to have been written at Citrakūta Durga.
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29. Rajasekhara describes himself as an Arhata and a Kavi in the last stanza of the chapter. He was a layman; his father, grand-father and greatgrand-father were respectively called Duddaka, Lahața and Yasa, and belonged to the Thakkura family. His mother's name was Nāgadevi; but nothing about his literary activities is at present known to us. He only tells us that this manual of his was very mnch liked by one Bhojadeva, who is very likely to be identified with the great king Bhoja of Dhārā. The date of our ms. very well confirms this identification35 and it will not be far from truth if we assign Rajasekhara and his literary activities to the middle of the 11th century A. D.
30. I feel deeply obliged to Muni Shri Jinavijayaji, Director, Rajasthan Puratattva Mandir, who asked me to reedit this important work on Prakrit prosody for the Rajasthan Puratattva Series. I thank the Authorities of the the Asiatic Society of Bombay and the University of Bombay for permitting me to publish it as an independent book, and the Director of the Oriental Institute, Baroda, for lending me the only ms. of the work in their possession. But I specially mention my indebtedness to Pandit Rahula Sankrtyayana of Massuri, who gave me the palm-leaf ms. containing the fragments of the first part of the work, which is missing in the Baroda ms. Finally I gratefully acknowledge the substantial help in various ways which I have continuously received from my friend and colleague Dr. H. C. Bhayani of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay.
35. Chandaḥsekhara, which is quoted by Trivikrama in his commentary on the Vrttaratnakara is very probably identical with the work of our Rajasekhara, I have published this commentary at JBBRAS Vol. 33 (1958), pp. 25-68; I have discussed this question briefly on p. 37