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posed by Haribhadra. Besides 4767FIT and AETH[527 17 equally respect his dissertation on acaza. Last four lines are to be specially marked. All the above arguments regarding the quotations from Shanti Soori are fully strengthened.. Had Shanti Soori and Haribhadra soori been contemporaries the whole of the above arguments forwarded by Devendra soori would be irrelavent and out of place. देवेंद्रसूरि also calls the ललितfarat asthe fountain-head (last four lines and the first ster in Magdhi.) This agere was a close follower of Shanti soori, near his time, respecting Shanti soori as an authority, but in case of doubt resorting to Haribhadra soori, thereby putting him several centuries earlier than Shanti soori. This disposes of the second branch of my arguments.
Thirdly-There are the well known commentator on all the Angas and several works of Haribhadra soori affords important proofs in his writings. It can be said to his credit that he was a true respresentative of his age and under the guise of commenting on the great works, he has always been a free criticiser of the then institutions in all its forms, but be it further said to his credit that he is always true to the origi. nal works he is commenting. The credit is increased when one knows that he is equally respected by both the aq tey and acaraeg. Further he is always free from exaggeration. He was initiated in the year 1088. He has composed several commentaries on the works of Shri Haribhadra soori. In parti. cular he is well-known as a commentator of the jerst of Shri Haribhadra soori. It will be seen from the quotations that he completed this commentary in the year 1124 (Vikram). Now he being the immediate desciple of Shri Jineshawar soori (of whom hereafter ) he was much in a position to know good many things about Haribhadra if he can be taken to have flourished in the tenth Vikrama era; because I will try to show hereafter that his preceptor Jineshwar soori will come just after a generation of Haribhadra and both these authors write in a spirit which is worthy of consideration and as it appears to me fully explaining the whole mystery. Without dilating more upon preficing the point I directly go to quote
| SR No. | 536627 |
| Book Title | Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1915 07 08 09 Pustak 11 Ank 07 08 09 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Mohanlal Dalichand Desai |
| Publisher | Jain Shwetambar Conference |
| Publication Year | 1915 |
| Total Pages | 394 |
| Language | Gujarati |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald, & India |
| File Size | 11 MB |