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be taken as 535+470=1005 or 1055 Vikrama or taking it as a Gupta date 70 years earlier, under any supposition he comes in the middle of the 10th or 11th Vikrama century. According to former supposition Haribhadra comes in before 50 years or just in a contemporary period. (i. e. accepting 1005 or 1055 respectively). first let us see how he quotes Haribhadra. In his चैत्यवंदन महाभाप्य गाथा ३ Shanti Soori say's:- .
जइ एवं किं भणिआ तिविहा हरिभद्दसूरिणा सूत्ते जिनबिंबस्स पइटा जं भणिओवत्ति पइटाएमा इत्यादि.
The question under consideration is how many kinds of glāgrs (installation of idols ) are prescribed. Shanti Soori himself prescribed several modes. Then the question arises owing to the fact that Haribhadra prescribed three kinds of arágr only in his works. Then the difficulty is solved.
Now (I ) had Haribhadra been a contempory, he would never bave been quoted following the usual rule. ( II ) Shanti soori says that Haribhadra prescribed three kinds ofgiãgr in att i. e. This word gà is very significant. Thecompositions of ancient authors who flourished with in the period of 1000 years after Shri Vira can only be said to be as or of the authors just within or near that period i.e. on the brink of that period. The explanation of ascribing to their work the higher name of pa is simply this viz, that they had the advantage of knowing Poorvas-the direct revealatious of the immediate desciples of Shri Vira known as Ganadharas. No subsequent author can competewith the old Ag-writers as to the genuineness and authenticity of their works. Thus the word as is placing Haribhadra in or near the period of one thousand years after Vira. (III) No modern author required any refutation at the hands of Shanti soori who, according to Thuê asis was a great man in his days and wielded an unbounded authority. In fact he him. self was an authority.
(IV ) Haribhx dra prescribed three kinds of player which in subsequent time expanded into more than that number. Now according to the proverbial sluggishness in the introduc
