Atmanand Prakash Pustak 050 Ank 02

Author(s): Jain Atmanand Sabha Bhavnagar
Publisher: Jain Atmanand Sabha Bhavnagar

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ભર્તુહરિ અને દિલ્તાગ.
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કર્યો હોવા છતાં વિક્રમ સંવત ૪૧૪ માં મલવાદીએ બૌદ્ધો ઉપર વિજય મેળવ્યાની હકીકતને કશી બાધા પહેચતી નથી.
સાથેના શ્રી આયંગરના લેખમાં ઈ. સ. ૫ મી શતાબ્દીનું દિનાગનું જે અસ્તિત્વ જણાવવા માં આવ્યું છે તે વિદ્વાનોએ આજ સુધી કરેલા સ્થૂલ સંશોધનને આધારે હોવાથી સંભાવના માત્ર છે. એ સ્થૂલ અનુમાને એવાં છે કે દિનામના સમયને પાંચમી શતાબ્દીથી સે-દેઢ વર્ષ પૂર્વે ખુશીથી લઈ જઈ શકાય તેમ છે. Ho Pooc,
-मुनिराजश्री भुवनविजयान्तेवासी श्रावण शुक्ल पंचमी, g. watt [fa&i-aifea ]
मुनि जम्बूविजय.
Bhartrhari and Dinnāga*
By H. R. Rangaswamy Iyengar. The date of the great grammarian Bhartshari, author of the Vákyapadiya, which is regarded as a landmark in the literary history of India in as much as it forms the basis for determining the dates of several Sanskrit authors,' has been determined so far on the statements of Itsing in his, “Record of Buddhist religion". The Chinese traveller has recorded that Bhartshari was a great grammarian, whose fame had spread all over India, that he was the author of the three works Vákyapadīya, the commentary on the Mahabhastya and another work, Peina, (which may perhaps be the Prakirna Kanda or the third and last chapter of the Vákyapadiya ), and that he died in about 650 A. D. i, e., forty years before the date of his record. The accuracy with wbich Itsing has reported other contemporary events as well as about the extent of the Vakypadiya itself has led scholars to assign Bhartrhari to the seventh century A. D.
* Read at the 15th session of the All India Oriental Conference.
I Cf."A Record of the Buddhist Religion,” by I-tsing translated into English by J. Takakusu. P. xv
“ The most important of all the dates given by I-tsing are those of Bhartrhari, Jayaditya, and their contemporaries. They serve as a rallying-point for å number of literary men belonging to what I called the 'Renaissance period of Sanskrit literature.”
2 Ibid PP, LVII and PP. 178–180.