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Pathways to Literature, Art, and Archaeology: Pt. Gopal Narayan Babura Felicitation Volume,
Jaipur 1991. 14. Unlike the Bhaktamara-stotra as well as the Bhayahara-stotra, there is no inclusion of the nomen
Mänatunga in the end-verse or anywhere inside this stotra. The style of composition is also
definitely later than the Bhayaharastotra which, like the Uvassagahara, is in Prakrta. 15. The inclusion of the Pārsva Yaksa along with Jina Pārśva would suggest a date not earlier than
the late ninth century for this stotra. Several years ago, I had pointed out this fact when the subject of the so-called Bhadrabāhu II was discussed with Pt. Dalsukh Malvania in Varanasi when Pt.
Sagarmal Jain was also present. 16. The date and authorship of this stava are being discussed in the "Introduction" of the first part
of the BNSMM. 17. For discussion on the probable date of this work, see my article "Dākṣiṇātya Nirgrantha Paramparā
ke kucha Granthon ki Aitihăsika Samasyāen", Sandhāna, Vol. V, Varanasi 1992, 15-19. 18. TERRY Gelegen aan
पद्मावत्या समं देवमुपतस्थौ फणीश्वरः ॥ ७७॥ तस्य विस्तारयामास सधैर्यस्तवपूर्वकम् । स्फुरन्मणिरुचिस्फारस्फुटामंडलमंडपम् ॥ ७८॥
- श्रीपार्श्वनाथचरित्रम् 19. My studies on these important compositions will appear in print elsewhere, in part also in the
Introduction to BNSMM earlier alluded. 20. Vidyānanda has been by past scholars assigned to early 9th century, a date not upheld by facts.
Some five years ago, I had discussed the date of this great scholiast in my article, "The Date of Vidyānanda and Epigraphical Evidence", to be published in Dr. H.V. Trivedi Felicitation Volume,
Bhopal. Its revised version will figure in the Nirgrantha 2, Ahmedabad, in 1997. 21. An epigraphical reference to Padmavatyalaya at Kallili in the inscription of the Kadamba Ravivarmā
(c. early 6th century) from Gudanapura is even earlier in time. (See in this volume A. Sundara's
paper.) 22. The available archaeological evidence is for late tenth century as at the Mahavira temple at Ahad
near Udepur (Mevád) in Rajasthan. The Śvetāmbara literature is totally silent on Padmavati till we come to early 11th century. Clearly, the Svetāmbara Church (which essentially is western Indian) had adopted Padmavati from the southern Church where she meets with considerable
frequency and where the antiquity of her worship and depiction goes back to the sixth century. 23. Jainastotrasandoba, pt. 2 (Mantradhiraja Cintamant) (JSS2), Ed. Muni Caturvijaya, Ahmedabad
1936, pp. 75-76. 24. Sri Lalitastotrasandoha, Ed. Hrinkāravijaya Gani, Bangalore 1962, p. 103; also Panca Pratikramana,
Ed. Pt. Sukhalalji, Agra 1921, "Parisista," p.45. 25. Jainastotrasangraha, pt. 1 (JSS nl), Varanasi V.N.S. 2432/A.D. 1912, pp. 116-118; also JSS2, pp.
194-195, 26. Jainastotrasandoha, pt. 1 (JSS1), Ed. Muni Caturavijaya, Ahmedabad 1932, pp. 195, 196. 27. Ibid., p. 94. 28. Ibid., p. 204.
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