Arya Bhadrabahu

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Arya Bhadrabahu
Jäänänjali, Vadodara 1960, pp. 122-129. (This article originally was published in Acarya Sri Vijayavaallabhasüri Smaraka Grantha, Bombay 1956, pp. 49-56. 13. As I elsewhere have shown, the date of Deva vācaka is c. mid fifth century A.D. and not c. A. D. 400: (C). "Bhadräryäcārya ane Dattilācārya" Gujarati, Svädhyāya, Vol.14, Vadodara V.S.2037/A. D. 1981. This article has been incorporated in the author's Nirgrantha Aitihäsika Lekha-Samuccaya, pt. 1, Ahmedabad 2002, pp. 103-113.)
The hagiological table of Deva vācaka and of Devarddhi gani is as follows:
Deva vācaka (Nandisutra:
c. A.D. 450)
Dusya gani kṣamāśramaṇa
Sthiragupta kṣamāśramaṇa
Kumāradharma gani
Devarddhi kṣamasramaṇa (chaired Valabhi Synod II: c. A.D. 503 or 516)
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Cf. here the annotation 36 for quotation.
See the "Uttaradhyayana niryukti," the Niryukti-sangraha, (comp.) Vijayajinendra süri, Śri Harṣapuspämṛta Jaina Granthamälä, Vol.189, Lakhabawal (Lakhābābal) 1989, 2.91, p. 373.
Bhadraryācārya
15. Muni Kalyanavijaya and, following his view, Pt. Malvaniya dated this work to the fifth century of Vikrama Era (c. A.D. 345-445). (See Kalyänavijaya, Vira nirvana Samvat aur Jaina Kälaganană, (Hindi), Jalor S. 1987/A.D. 1931, p.30, and D. Malvaniya, "Study of Titthogaliya," Bharatiya Puratattva (Muni Jinavijaya Felicitation Volume), Jaipur 1971, pp.129-138.) I would, on the basis of style and content, prefer the date c. A.D. 550 for this work: It must be available to the author of the Vyavahara-bhasya (c. late 6th cent.) which, as noted by Malvaniya, mentions this text: (Malvaniya, p.137). It is, however, not noted in the list of the Prakirnaka works in the Nandisutra (c. A.D. 450). This significant omission almost confirms the date I here have suggested.
16. It apparently is the latest among the earliest agamic bhāṣyas.
17. It is one of the two earliest extant curnis, the first being the Dasavaikālika-cūrṇi of Agastyasimha (c. A.D. 575). The time bracket A.D. 600-650 for the Avasyakacûrni was suggested, if I have remembered correctly, by Leumann. I have tested the validity of that date: It certainly is probable.