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The Date of Siddharshi.
274 i siddhantas, but only transported them to books and writings. In my humble opinion his own commentaries on the Sidhhantas and his literary activity in various other directions do not disprove my view about his date, but I should like to know your viwes on this your argument.in details, before I can do full justice to it and leave it aside finally.
Your third argument about the relationship of Haribhadra with Sidharshi and the spirit in which he imitates him is already tried to be, met with in my precious letter, Imitators, even if they be very close in imitation, must not necessarily be contemporaries. This, I think, can be easily exemplified. Haribhadra, Sidharshi, Devendra Soori and Yashovijayji are composers of alien books' viz ARTIKE El, 3TrAfanasiaat 71, लघूपमिति and वैराग्य कल्पलता on alien subjects. Particularly the last is such a close imitation of the first three that they may be regarded almost as personal; but still Yashovijaya is un. doubtedly not a contemporary of any as is historically known. So also Hemchandra closely imitates GTGEOT described in the sidhantas but unquestionably he not a contemporary of of Sootrakaras. If I have personal respect for Yashovijaya or Johnson, I may be a fewant admirer and a close imitatord of either in this logical or Johnsovian bombastic style or even closely depict their ideas in their identical form; but still one fails to see how I should necessarily be a contemporary of either. As far is one can judge from an oriental standpoint though there are traces of personal character but the relationship between the two authors as depicted by Sidharshi is sublime more than personal and at any rate one is quite justified if he does not stumble at the closeness of the two authors in historically making them contemporaries. And I should add, that the word stará pre are still inexplicable unless we put a forced interpretation upon it as you did in your first letter. In order to reconcile this apparent paradox in the style of Sidhharshi you try to interpret the year 585 to be a Gupta year, which only brings Haribhadra to the year 720 Vikrama Samvat and not to 962 Samvat as you said in your first letter. Under any supposition the whole theory remains in
| 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 |