Kuvalayamala and Modern Scholarship

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THE KUVALAYAMĀLĀ AND MODERN SCHOLARSHIP : 171
College (Kantivijayaji ?) and of the latter in Cambay and Ahmedabad are mentioned. The attribution of the authorship of Kuvalayamālā to Indrasūri is based on a wrong reading in an extract given by P. PETERSON from the Santināthacarita of Devacandra. (A Fifth Report of operation in search of Sanskrit Mss. in the Bombay Circle, Bombay 1896, p. 73.)
The Kuvalayamåla-kathā, a stylistic Sanskrit digest of the Prākrit work of Uddyotana by Ratnaprabhasūri (c. middle of the 13th century A.D.) was edited by Muni CHATURAVIJAYA from three Mss. and was published in 1916 (Śri-Jaina Ätmānanda Sabhā, Bhavanagar 1916. A revised edition of this work is lately published along with the Prākrit text referred to above, and also separately issued, Bombay 1961). The prastāvana (in Sanskrit) of this volume introduces most exhaustively, for the first time, the earlier Prakrit work of Uddyotana quoting its significant extracts from the Poona Ms. which correspond to the following passages in my edition : p. 282, 1. 6 to the end of paragraph 432 (omitting a few verses vamdāmi savva-siddhe to [paņi] vayāmi); p. 173, 1. 31 to p. 174 1. 6; p. 1, 1.2 to l. 8; and p. 3, 1. 14 to p.4, 1.14. A bare outline of the story is indicated; and significantly enough it is stated that Haribhadra, who is styled as bhava-viraha is earlier than Uddyotana and not at all a contemporary of Siddharși, the author of the Upamitibhava-prapañcā katha. The extracts given in this Introduction attracted the attention of various scholars who used some of these references in their studies.
It was in 1916 that the Kävyamimamsă of Rājasekhara ed. by C. D. Dalal and R. A. SHASTRY was published (Gaekwad's Oriental Series, No. 1, Baroda 1916; p. 124 of the Re-issue, Baroda 1924; pp. 204–5, 3rd ed., Baroda 1934); and in its Notes were given extracts from the Kuvalayamālā based on the Ms. P and corresponding to our text, p. 3, 1. 18 to p. 4, 1.2, which attracted the attention of some other scholars towards the Kuvalayamālā (N. PREMI : Padmacaritam, Bombay 1928, Intro. p. 2; A. N. UPADHYE : Annals of the B.O.R.I., XVI, i-ii, p. 62; also the Varängacarita, Bombay 1938, Intro. pp. 9-10).
MUNIRAJ SHRI JINAVIJAYA read a paper (in Sanskrit) at the First [All-India] Oriental Conference (Poona 1919) on The Date of Haribhadrasūri'. (Separately issued, pp. 1-23, in the Jaina Sahitya Samsodhaka Granthamälā, Poona.) It is an exhaustive paper which scrutinises the views of earlier scholars, lists the works attributed to Haribhadra, enumerates the traditional sources for his biography, and takes up for discussion the traditional date, A.D. 529, assigned to him, Siddharşi's (A.D. 906) reference to him as me dharma-prabodhakaro
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