Kuvalayamala and Modern Scholarship

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172: SHRI MAHAVIRA JAINA VIDYALAYA GOLDEN JUBILEE VOLUME
guruh and consequent conclusion of H. JACOBI that Haribhadra was a senior contemporary and guru of Siddharşi. JINAVIJAYA shows that Gargarși was the guru of Siddharşi and correctly interprets the latter's reference to Haribhadra. It is in this context that he quotes the Kuvalayamālā (p. 4, 1. 2) and reaches the conclusion that Haribhadra, the author of the Samarādityakathā, could not be later than A. D. 778. Then he studies the various references from Haribhadra's works, quotes an extract from the Kuvalayamālā (corresponding to p. 282, 1. 6 to 1. 20) from the Ms. P, and assigns Haribhadra to A.D. 700-770. In the appendix the chronological relation of Haribhadra with śāntarakṣita, Dharmottara, Mallavādi and Samkara are indicated.
The Brhattippanikā is an old list of Jaina works prepared in Samvat 1440, i.e., A.D. 1383, by some Jaina monk acquainted with the Mss.-collections at Pattan, Cambay and Broach etc. (but not Jaisalmer). It was used by the compilers of the Jaina Granthāvali, noted above. It is published (based on the Mss., three to four hundred years old, belonging to the Collection of Sri Kāntivijayaji Jaina Jñānamandira, Baroda) by Muni JINAVIJAYA (Jaina Sāhitya Samsodhaka I, 2, Poona 1920, Supplement pp. 1-16; see also Ibidem I, 4, pp. 157-58). Therein the references to the Kuvalayam ālā (p. 10) stand thus:
R20. STATO IT. T [# (?)] <34 ao sentaa aa 3000|| ३२१. कुवलयमाला सं० रत्नप्रभसूरीया ३८९४ ।
A Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Jaina Bhandars at Jaisalmer, compiled by C.D. DALAL and edited with Introduction, Indexes and Notes on unpublished works and their authors by L. B. GANDHI was published in 1923 (G.O.S., No. XXI, Central Library, Baroda 1923). It presents the entry of the Ms. of the Kuvalayamālā in this manner (p. 27) :
PPS. STA of haat (391701) . 254 leaves. 23x21. Col. :
इति कुवलयमाला नाम संकीर्ण कथा. संवत् ११३९ दातु (आसु) वदि १ रविदिने
लिखितमिदं पुस्तकम्। In this Sanskrit Introduction and its notes (pp. 42-43) Pt. GANDHI gives some bits of information about this work (possibly based on the extracts from the Poona Ms. quoted by the editor in the Introduction to the edition of its Sanskrit digest by Ratnaprabha published from Bhavanagar and noted above), especially quoting references to Uddyotana by Ratnaprabha and Devacandra. (PETERSON in his Fifth Report, already noted above, gave an extract from the Säntināthacarita of Devacandra (A.D. 1103). He read the name of the author as Dakkhinnaindasuri. Pt. GANDHI reads indha for imda. Prabhācandra (A.D. 1277) reads the name Dākṣiṇyacandra. That only shows how the original reading Dakkhiņņaimdha was not correctly understood.)