Karkanda Chariu

SR No.: 034918
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kankamar Muni
Publisher: Karanja Jain Publication
Publication Year: 1934
Total Pages: 364
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 33 MB

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author of the Yyayāvatāra and other works. There has been a renouat of controversy about his date which fluctantes lietween the first century B. C. ? the 7th century A. D.1 Five works of Samantabhadra have so fill come to lizhit. His date has also been a subject of controversy and he has been assi meil to various lates between the 2nd and the 7th cent. A. D. What we are alsolutely certuin is that he lived prior to 705 A. I). when the Harivamáa purana of Jinasen: which m ions him, was completed. 2 Akalaın kadeva is tive author of many works. His olete is also uncertain though some inscriptional :nd literary recorils connect him with the court of Sālusatunya whi is generally identi!ied with the Rislotrakota king Krishna I. and therefore he is assigned to the middle of the 7th century A. D.2 Vo work of Jayadeva has so far come to my knowledge but he is day author Mallibhushauna in his Nagakumāracarita, as the tirst of those who wrote a life of Vägakumāra 3 Svayambhu is known to be the uthor of two burgo Apabhramsa works. He flourished between the 7th and the 10th century A. D.4 Pushpadlanta las now become well known liy his three Apabhrams: works twi) of which, Jasibaracariu and Nāyakumāracirin have already been publisheid. ilis Mahāpurāna is proved to have been completed in A. D. 96.).
Thus, of the six authors mentionel lg Kanakāmarn the latest to have livel is Puslapаdanta. In fact, the author geems to hain mentioned them in their chronological order. Therefore t. D. 965 proves to be the form 11,3-14-70 for the date of our author.
In the author's prasasti mentioned above, there is soine inforination of historical value which may ultimately help to determine precisely the late of our author. Here the author says that he produced the work at Asaiya town, out of regard for the minister to whom king Vijarāia was attached, who was a veritable nirror to the face of king Vijavāla, who attracted the miud of king Bbūrāla and who amusell the heart of king Kamna. Thus, the kings mentioned seem to be named Vijarapāla, Bhūpāla and Karṇa who lived within the life time of a single ininister and who actually ruled at Asaiya or had it included in their king lom.
After a long search, I feel inclined to identify these kings with those mentioned in a few oligcure inscriptions which have not yet been assigned their
1. Dr. P. L. Vaidya: Nrayavatara, Borubar, 1928. Introduction. 2. Catalogue of C. P. & Berar Mssi introduction. 3. H. L. Jain: Nasakumaracariu, introduction p. XXI. 4. H. L. Jain: Apaburanusa literature, Allababad l'niversity Journal V. I, p. 109.