Book Title: Anekantajay patakakhyam Prakaranam Part 2
Author(s): Haribhadrasuri, Munichandrasuri
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
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INTRODUCTION
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with svopajña commentaries, if any and (ii) commentaries. They will be taken up in the order of the Nāgari alphabet.
Numben.-.-That Haribhadra composed an immensely big number of works, is borne out by references we come across in various works. Some of these have been noted by me in my intro. (p. XXVIII) to Vol. I.
The variation in number from 1400 to 1444 can be accounted for, in case we adinit that those who mentioned the number as 1400 intended to give a round number and not the actual one. Such a thing is noticed in the verse mentioning the death-dates of Vajra, Haribhadra and Bappabhatti together with the date of the destruction of Valabhi. Soine who look upon 1444 as the correct number even now, believe that the hymn beginning with 'samsāradāvānala' is to be looked upon as four works.
(2) Anekāntaja yapatākā Our author has composed several works some of which have been named by himself?, while the rest have been so named by the commentator or some one else. Thus his works can be divided into two groups: (i) those that are named by the author and (ii) those of which the names are supplied by some one else. This work AJP comes under the first group inasmuch as it is so named by the author himself in the beginning in the
1 In this connection it may be mentioned that several Europeans
have been authors of a vast number of works. For instance Richard Bechaster composed 145 works and L'abbé Prevost 170. Daniel Defoe, the well-known author of Robinson Cruzo, could writo 174 works and a number of pamphlets as well, Dr. Campbell has composed so much as would fill in a cart, and its cost would come to about 1000 Rs. Bishop Snidberg, father of Sweden borg aurpasses him; for, his works would occupy ten carts. Hans Sexse, * German shoe-maker while attending to his occupation, could compose 200 works on comedy and tragedy and 700 fables. Mozer, a German, who died in the last century, composed 480 works out of which about 463 are published. Kruntz, a German scholar, could Aingly compose an encyclopædia which conld furnish material for
72 volames by the time of his death. 2 This is the number assigned to this work in the intro. (p. XXVIII)
to AJP (Vol. I). 3 Dhammasangahani, Yogabindu, Lalitavistară ete. may be cited
as examples,
