Arya Bhadrabahu

Author(s): M A Dhaky
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18. Thiscūrni, like that on the Âcäränga and the one on the Sūtrakstänga, is younger
among that class ofāgamic exegetical literature. 19. Haribhadra (active c. A.D. 740-784), as guessed by earlier writers, apparently
had begun his literary career by writing vrttis in Sanskrit on the agamas like
the Nandi, the Anuyogadvāra, and the Āvasyaka in c. A. D. 750. 20. The Kahāvali of Bhadreśvara sūri is as yet unpublished. Prof. Harivallabha Bhayani
had assigned the task of its editing to Dr. Ramanik Shah. I am grateful to Dr. Shah for giving me the gist of the “Bhadrabāhu-kathă" incorporated in that medieval work. As for its date, see my paper, “Kahāvali-kartr Bhadreśvara sūrino Samaya," (Gujarati), Sambodhi Vol.12, Ahmedabad 1982-83. It has been included in the Nirgrantha Aitihäsika Lekha-Samuccaya, pt.1, Ahmedabad 2002, pp.103113. (There, the word was kartr' in the original rubric which here is replaced by
kartta.) 21. Sthavirāvalicarita or Parisistaparvan, (Ed.) Hermann Jacobi, sec. ed., Calcutta
1932, pp.242-248; and Śrī Parićiştaparva (Gujaräti), translator Rājasekhara sūri, Ahmedabad 1994, pp.182-186. The particulars on the content of the Parisistaparva
will be cited in this article at a relevant point in the discussion. 22. Bhagavati Aradhanā, pt.2. (Ed.) Pt. Kailāścandra Siddhantaśästri, Solapur 1978,
p.707. The work earlier has been identified as of the Yapaniya sect by Pt. Nathooram Premi, A. N. Upadhye, and even Pt. Kailashchandra Shastri agreed with this attribution. I forego citing references to their writings since not directly
relevant to the present discussion. 23. Tiloyapannatti, pt.1., Jivarāja Jaina Granthamälā 1, Sholapur V.S. 2000/A.D.
1944, 4. 1476-1482, p.338. 24. Harivamsapurāna, Jñanapitha Mürtidevi Jaina Granthamālā, Vol.27, sec. ed.,
Ed. Pannalal Jaina, Delhi/Varanasi 1972, 1. 60-61, p.7. 25. Satkhandāgama, pt. 1, (Eds.) Hiralal Jain and A.N. Upadhye, śrīmanta Setha
Sitābrāy Lakşmicandra Jaina Sahityoddhāraka Siddhānta Granthamālā 1, Sholapur 1973, pp.66-67; cf. there the Dhavala-tikā, the portion that concerns
with the hagiology of early pontiffs. 26. See B.K. Kharabadi, Vaddārādhane : A Study, Karnataka University Research
Publications Series : 38, Dharwad 1979. See there “6. The Story of the Sage
Bhadrabāhu," pp. 49-56. 27. Its editor Kharabadi ascribes the work to Śivakoti and dates it to the tenth century.
But Hampa Nagarajaiah has shown, on the basis of a reference in the Punyäsrava