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अनुसन्धान ४६
Haribhadra is the most celebrated, honoured and versatile author in the 8th century.
Throughout his life he wandered in Rājasthāna and Gujrat and never visited Mahārāstra. It seems that with a sound background of Skt. he acquired the skills in JM.and produced (i) a huge prose narrative like Samaraiccakahā, (ii) a unique satirical work like Dhuttakkahāṇa which inspired Skt. Dharamapariksā and Apabhramśa Dhammaparikkha in the later period, (iii) first JM. book dedicated to Yoga in Jain manner (viz. Yogasayaya), (v) other treatises related to Karma theory, Monastic conduct, Layman's conduct, Didactic and Karaņanuyoga. Haribhadra included a lot of folk stories, examples, fables and traditional religious stories in his commentaries on Āvassaya and Dasaveyāliya. Though the explanations of Sūtras are given in Skt., he had purposely used JM. for this stories.
Conclusively we can say that the JM. used by Haribhadra represents it's classical form. His language comes nearest to pure Mahārāștri. His vocabulary consists of a lot of old Gujrati desi words, influence of Skt. in the use of cvi forms, compounds ending in bhūya (bhūta) and ample literary words. This classical form reaches its height in Kuvalayamālā of Uddyotanasūri. This monumental Campūkāvya, full of rich cultural data is written in the last lap of the 8th Century.
When we cast a glance to the 9th Century - literary, it is seem that the variety of subjects in remarkable. JM. works in this century are concerned to Philosophy, Anthology, Didactic, Karman, Hymns and Legendary histories. Šilānka started the tradition of writing Caritas in JM. along with his commentaries on Ācārānga and Sūtrakrtānga. Bappabhatti wrote his anthology Tārayaņa, who was in the close contact with Vākpatirāja (Bappairāya) the poet of famous Mahārāștri work Gaudavaho.
Virabhadra, beloging the 10th century, wrote his Prakirņakas viz. Ārāhanapadāyā, Āurapaccakkhāņa, Causaraña and Bhattapariņņa in Ārsa Prakrit form. The language and
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