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JAINA ANTIQUARY.
[Vol. I Cāmuṇqarāya wrote three books, Cāmundarāya Purāna, Caritra-sāra and a commentary (in Kanarese language) of the Gommațasāra of Nemicandra. From the colophon of the first work we learn that it was completed in the Saka year 900 (= 978 A.C.). Thus it is found that Ācārya Nemicandra lived about 980 A.C.
Ācārya Nemicandra was a disciple of Ācārya Abhayanandi and belonged to the Desīya Gana of the Jainas. This seat flourished mainly in the Karņāțaka. So it is very likely that Nemicandra came from that part of Hindusthan. That was indeed the field of his activity.
Nemicandra's Works
Scholars have differred about the works of Ācārya Nemicandra Siddhānta-cakravartī. The author of the Bahubali-carita has attributed to him only three works namely the Gommațasāra, Labdhisāra and Trilokasāra. There are internal as well as external evidences to prove that these three works were truly composed by our author. So there cannot and, indeed, has not been, any difference of opinion about them. Unfortunately, we cannot be as sure about others. According to Sarat Chandra Ghoshal,” followed by J. L. Jaini, 2 he wrote two other works, Dravyasamgraha and Kșapaņasāra, probably also Pratişthāpātha. Babu Jugalkisore 3 doubts if Muni Nemicandra, the author of the Dravyasamgraha, can really be identified with Nemicandra Siddhānta-cakravartī, the author of the Gommațasāra, on the ground of certain difference, pointed out by him, between the philosophical ideas profounded in these two works. In his commentary on the Dravyasamgraha, Brahmadeva states that Muni Nemicandra stayed for some times in the temple of Tirthankara Muni Subrata in the town of Aśrama, the capital of Srīpala, a
1 Loc cit., pp. xxixff. 2 Gommațasāra, Jivakānda, edited with English translation and notes by J. L.
Jaini, Lucknow, 1927; Introduction, p. 9. 3 Trilokasāra with the commentary of Mādhavacandra Traividyadeva, edited
by Pandit Manoharalal Sastri ; Introduction, p. 10.
| SR No. | 529551 |
| Book Title | Jain Siddhant Bhaskar |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Jain Siddhant Bhavan |
| Publisher | Jain Siddhant Bhavan |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 417 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Jain Siddhant Bhaskar, & India |
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