Kartikeyanupreksha

SR No.: 090248
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kumar Swami
Publisher: Paramshrut Prabhavak Mandal
Total Pages: 589
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Religion
File Size: 19 MB

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Jänarnava written in Sam. 1575, i. e., a. D. 1518 was given as a gift to him. So he was living in 1518 A. D. Being an elderly contemporary and predecessor, Subhacandra refers to him in some of his works with respect.
INTRODUCTION
Vijayakirti: Janabhúsana was succeeded by Vijayakirti for whom the available dates range frou Sam, 1557-68, i. e., A. n. 1500-1511. According to the Pattavali he was expert in the Gommatesāra and was honoured by Malliraya, Bhairavaraya and Devendraraya, local chiefs from Karnaṭaka. Subhacandra: Vijayakīrti was succeeded by Subhacandra (Sam, 15731613, i. e., A. D. 1516-1556) who has really outdone his predecessors by his literary activities. A Gurvavali is published in the Jaina Siddhanta Bhā shara I. IV (Arrah) in which a line of about 103 Teachers, beginning with Guptigupta and ending with Padinanandi, is glorified. Therein Subhacandra is numbered as the 90th teacher and praised in brilliant terms. He was a Bhaṭṭāraka at Sakavāṭa (mod. Sagawada in Rajasthan), the pontifical seat of which was subsidiary to that of Idara. At present Sagawaḍā has a few Jaina families and a pretty Paṭhaśālā.
The extract from the Pattavali, which is reproduced below, testifies to Subhaoandra's wide learning and still wider activities. He had mastered many works on logic, grammar, metaphysics and rhetorics. He visited different parts of the country, had a good hand of disciples, defeated in disputes many logicians and possessed an accurate knowledge of his own religion as well as that of others. The passage, interesting as it is for the mention of many works studied by Subhacandra, runs thus:
16 'तापप्रकटचतुर्विधसंघसमुद्रोल्लासनचन्द्राणां प्रमाणपरीक्षा" - पत्रपरीक्षा" - पुष्पपरीक्षा - परीक्षामुख-प्रमाणनिर्णम ँश्यायमकरन्द े –न्यायकुमुदचन्द्रोदय' - म्यायविनिश्वयालंकार श्लोकवार्तिक" - राजवार्तिकालंकार " - प्रमेयकमलमार्तण्ड" - मासमीमांसा "मसहस्री" - चिन्तामणिमीमांसाविवरण - वाचस्पतिताचकौमुदीममुखकर्कश जैनेन्द्र
1) Perhaps identical with Saluva Malli Raya; see my paper Jivatattva-pradipika on Gommaṭasara' in Fudian Culture VII, 1, pp. 23f.
2) V. P. JOHARAPURKAR: Bhattaraha Sampradaya, Nos. 367-75, pp. 155 £
3) Of Vidyananda.
4) Perhaps lost to us.
5) Of Manikyanandi.
6) Of Vadiraja.
7) Perhaps lost to us.
8) Of Prabbieandra, a com, on the Laghiyastrayam of Akalanka,
9) Of Vadiraja, a commentary on the Nyayaniniscaya of Akalanka.
10) Of Vidyananda,
11) Of Akalanka,
12) Of Prabhasandra, a commentary on the l'ariyamukha above.
13) Of Samantabhadra.
14) Of Vidyananda.
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