Anekantajay patakakhyam Prakaranam Part 2

Author(s): Haribhadrasuri, Munichandrasuri
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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INTRODUCTION
Page XXIX, 1. 15. Read पञ्चसूत्रकव्याख्या for पञ्चसूत्रव्याख्यापश्चस्थानक. Page xxix, 1. 27. Read योगशतक for योगविंशति. Yogasataka is mentioned by Pandit Sukhalal in his essay on Yoga-darsana,
Jinabhata & Kotyācārya
Haribhadra Suri has mentioned the name of Jinabhata in the following colophon of S'isyahita, a com. on Avassaya:
“समाप्ता धेयं शिष्य हिता नाम आवश्यकटीका । कृतिः सिताम्बराचार्यजिनभटनिगदानुसारिणो 'विद्याधर कुलतिलकाचार्य जिनदत्त शिष्यस्य धर्मतो जाइणी महत्तरासू नोरल्पमतेराचार्यहरिभद्रस्य ।"
Here the word 'nigada' does not mean 'obedience' (ājñāvartitva). So says Anandasagara Sūri in his Samskṛta preface (p. 4) to Kotyācārya's com. on Visesa. He substantiates this statement by saying that such a phrase is not found in the colophons of his commentaries on Dasaveyaliya etc. He adds that the phrase is used to point out his indebtedness to Jinabhața whose com. on Avassaya he has utilised while composing his Sisyahita on this same Agama. Jinabhata's com. has been also used by Kotyācārya as pointed out by him in this preface (p. 4). Further he has here stated that Kotyācārya flourished in the tenth century of Vira era, and he was most probably a predecessor of Haribhadra Suri. On p. 5, he says: In
1 Up to the eleventh century of Vikrama era, Vidyadhara was looked upon as 'kula' and not 'gaccha'. See Muni Kalyāṇavijaya's intro. (p. 18) to Prabhavakacarita. In support of this statement it may be mentioned that Sangama who resorted to anasana on Satrunjaya in Vikrama Samvat 1084 is referred to, in an ancient Pundarika lekha as Vidyadhara-kula-nabbastalamrganka. A similar remark holds good in the case of Nagendra and Nirvṛti and up to the 11th century in the case of Candra, too. These were each looked upon as 'kula' and not 'gaccha'. Deva Vacaka has referred to Näila kulavamsa in Nandi (therävali). Silanka Suri, the commentator of Ayara has called himself 'Nirvṛtikulina'. In the colophon of Upamiti Siddha-Rṣi has addressed his praguru Sūra Sūri as Nirvṛtikulodbhūta.
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In the colophon of Pradeśavyākhyā, a com, on Pannavana, Haribhadra has referred to himself as a pupil of Jinabhata. See my Descriptive Catalogue of Jaina Manuscripts (Vol. XVII, pt. 1, p. 204). 3 Lord Mahavira attained salvation in 527 B. C. So says the Jaina tradition. The late Dr. K. P. Jayaswal opines that this happened in 488 B. C. The late Dr. H. Jacobi, however, assigns to it the date 467 B. C.