Anekantajay patakakhyam Prakaranam Part 2

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

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INTRODUCTION
(ii) That there is a similarity in the exposition of certain topics sails in the same boat; for, it has no independent value in deciding a case. It can serve as a corroborative evidence, even if the reverse gets proved.
(iii) As regards the discussion about ābhāsavāda it remains to be ascertained as to who propounded it first, even if it is admitted that this doctrine is here alluded to.
(iv) In connection with the last point I may invite the attention of Prof. Abhyankar to Jinavijaya's Hindi article "The date of Haribhadra Suri" (p. 42, fn.) where he says:
In Rajputana and the northern India, a month ends on the full-moon day, and, so here there is mention of the dark half of Caitra. According to the Southern India it means the dark half of the Phalguna; for, in this part, a month gets completed on the new-moon day, and this is actually so in Gujarat even now. Jinavijaya has once more expressed this view in his article "Kuvalayamālā" (p. 218) published in "Bharatiya Vidya" (Vol. II, pt. II, May 1941). Here he reproduces an interesting note on this date written by the late Dr. Jacobi in his intro. (p. 2) to Samarāiccakaḥā.
In the Gujarati intro. (p. 5) to Samarăiccakahā (Vol. II ), B. H. Dosi quotes from memory a hemistich of the last verse of Dhuttakkhana as under:
"चित्तउड' दुग्गसंठिएहिं सामंतराय रोहिं"
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He says that this means that this narration was completed during the reign of Samantaraya staying in the fortress of Citrakuṭa'. According to Prabhavakacarita (IX, 7-8) Haribhadra Sūri was a purohita i. e. priest of Jitari. This Jitäri is either a proper name or an honorific title. So, if we can identify this ruler it may throw an additional light on the date of Haribhadra. As regards his life Haribhadra is reticent like several authors of the olden days, and he thus differs from Bana, Bilhana and Mankha who have supplied us with autobiographical details in Harṣacarita, Vikramankadevacarita and Srikanthacarita respectively.
SURVEY OF HARIBHADRA'S WORKS
I shall deal with Haribhadra's works noted in Vol. I (pp. XXVIII-XXIX) by dividing them into two groups: (i) texts
1 This may remind one of Pritiküte, the native place of Baya.