Adhyatmabindu

Author(s): Mitranandvijay, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Moreover, it is this Harṣavardhana who seems to have composed 'Girlnagaramandananemijinastavana (a Dvatriisika) an available manuscript1 of which is dated V. S. 1529. It is noteworthy that a stavana of the same name has also been composed by his grand spiritual teacher Somasundarasuri.
Again, it is he who seems to have been the author of Navatativa prakaraṇabalavabodha' an available manuscript of which is dated V. S. 1558.
There is a small Sanskrit prose work of a narrative story, viz. Rajapatnikathanaka. A manuscripts of this work informs us, at the end of the story, that it is composed by Harşavardhanagani. The author of this work too is in all probability Harşavardhana, a pupil of Ratnaiekhara, The manuscript of the work could be assigned to the date c. V. S. 1650.
2. Harşavardhana belonging to Kharataragaccha: A manuscript of Kalpasiravetti belonging to Shri Pravartaka Kantivijaya Sastra Sangraba, Chhani (No. 459) contains the following colophon: "svasti śrt 1625 varse... kruvidhi pakiagacchadhtia-InDharmamurtis ioidyamane HaravardhanaganiFisya-pandita-iriBhavaktrtigani-ŝisya-pandita-iri Kemakirtigaṇibhyaḥ pradattan". We have not come across any work from his pen, nor have we found any reference proving him the author of even a single work.
3. Prof. H. R. Kapadia refers to one Harsavardhana, a pupil of Jinavardhamana (Jinavardhana ?), who has written Tippana on Padmananandamahakarya composed by Vayadagacchiya Amaracandrasuri during V. S. 1295-97.5 The name Jinavardhamana is not known to us. It might be that the name is Jinavardhana instead of Jinavardhamana. There flourished, to the best of our knowledge, two Jinavardhanas-one belonging to 15th Century V. S. and the other belonging to the 20th Century V. S. Jinavardhana who belongs to 15th Century V. S. has composed Saptapadarthika. He belonged to Kharataragaccha. Can this third Haryavardhana be a pupil of this Jinavardhana? This is not impossible. Again, if this is so, then this third Harṣavardhana would most probably be identical with the second because both are Kharatara and both belong to the same period of time.
4. Again, there is one Harpavardhana who is a pupil of Ksemavardhana (Khemavardhana V. S. 1870-1879) and who has written Siddhagi
risanghapatistavana,
1. This manuscript belongs to Muni Shri Punyavijayaji's Collection (No. 2010) preserved in L. D. Insititute of Indology.
2. This manuscript belongs to L. D Collection (No. 1912) of L. D. Institute of Indology.
3. This manuscript belongs to Ac. Kṣantisüri's Collection (No 707) preserved in L. D. Institute of Indology.
4. Sriprasastisangraha, Pt. II, p. 120
5. Jaina Sanskrit Sahityano Itihasa, Vol II, Pt. I p. 8,
6. There are two manuscripts of this work in Nagarasheth's Collection (Nos. 1184, 1215) preserved in L. D. Institute of Indology.