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composed between the later half of the 8th Cent. A. D. and the first half of the 9th Cent. A. D. The conclusion is inescapable that Vādıbhasisha drew his story from Guņabhadra's MP, but took his inspiration for the composition of his Sanskrit clasics, the GC and the KC, in a bid to claim for them a matching literary estimation and popular fame, enjoyed so far only by the celebrated Tamil classics of Tirutakkatevar and Tolāmolitte var, respectively.
REFERENCES :
*Paper accepted by the A. I. O. C. XXXV th Session, Ujjain, 1976. 1. "Cf. Titthogāliya (Punya. ), 490 : “Visar sāhassio sisānam namijininda
darivaro Jivaga-raya-nayssā vippāe vijaya-tanayassa" Cf. Chaudhari, Gulabachandra—"Jaina Sahitya -kā Brhad Itihasa' (Hindi) Vol. VI, Varanasi 1973, 132. Actually, the story starts with UP LXXV.183: "Anyada'san maharaigh Śrenikākhyah paribhraman" etc., and ends with the vs.691; the colophon of the Parvan stating “......Jivandhara-caritaṁ nāma pañca-saptatitamaṁ parva”. Cf. Hiralal Jain and A. N. Upadhye, -Preface (p. c) to the Uttara-purāna of Gunacandra, edt. by Pannalal Jain, Bharatiya Jöānapitha, Kashi 1954. Ibid. The story is covered in 20 kadavakas; the colophon of the sandhi states:
Jivardhara-bhavā ‘vannaņa nāma nava-naudimo pariccheo". 7. Jain and Upadhye, -General Introduction (p. 17 ) to the Jivandhara-campū
of Haricandra, edt. by Pannalal Jain, Bh. Jn. Pth, Kashi 1958. 8 See Proceedings and Transactions of A.N.O.C.XIII. Nagpur 1946, 113-114.
Upadhye & Jain-Gen. Intro., p. 18; 10. Cf. MP, 1.115: "Adbhut ārtham imām", etc. u. Upadhye & Jain-Gen. Inrto., p. 18; also, Pillai, S. Vaiyapuri-History of
Tamil Language and Literature, 139. 12. Ibid. 13. V. Raghavan,-Bhoja's Srngāra-prakāśa, Madras 1963, 844. 14. Upadhye & Jain-Gen Intro. 18. 15. See supra, MP. I.115. 16. Cf. UP, LXXXV. 690-691. 17. P. L. Vaidya,-Engl. Intro. (p. xvii) to the Mahāpurāna of Puş padanta, Vol.
III, Bombay 1943. 18. Intro., p. XV. 19. Ibid, p. xix. 20. Jain & Upadhye--MP., Vol.II, Preface, p. C. 21. T. E. Gnanamurthy, A Critical Study of Civaka Cintamani, Coimbtore 1966, 18.
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