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Fifthly. I should like to go to a somewhat later author to show that Haribhadra cannot be supposed to hove flourished in the tenth Vikrama century. The author whom I now quote is though late in date is sufficieptly near the time to warrant an inference which I draw from his writings. The author is Malladhari Hemchandra. This Hemchandra flourished in the middle of the twelth century Vikrama in the time of the great king fatih surak. He has composed a short commen: tory on आवश्यक known as आवश्यक टिप्पण. In the book he first quotes Haribhadra.
यद्यपि मया तथान्यैः कृतास्य विकृतिस्तथापि संक्षेपात् ।
तद्रुचि सत्त्वानुग्रहहेतोः, क्रियते प्रयासोऽयं ॥ Thes are the words of Haribhadra, who, I should say, has composed a aja on the same strast . The afa I should also state is still available. Now gala ghag after quoting this verse from Haribhadra's aie dilates to the following effect.
यद्यपि मया वृत्तिः कृता इत्येवं वादिनि च वृत्तिकारे चतुरशीति सहस्र प्रमाणानेनैवावश्यक वृत्तिरपरा कृतासीदिति प्रवादः सत्यएव लक्ष्यते ।
This shows that Haribhadra himself had composed a greater Vratti and a smaller one also (the latter was available in the time of Agare and is still so, ) that the greater one èx. tended to the length of 84000 slokas, that there was simply a tradition to the same effect and that his simply draws that inference and confirms the tradition from the writings of Haribhadra.
Now what does this show? As far as I understand it, the commentator cannot be warranted to express the above fact as a tradition if there is not a great interval of good many centuries. Besides no books of Jainism are lost or destroyed in the 10th or 11th century, because that was the period when Jainism was in its zenith. The two centuries produced good many original writers and many kings were attached to and converted to the Jain faith. All these facts taken together warrant the inference that commentary (larger ) must have been lost during the period of 300 years which elapsed bet
