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THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS
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the 5th Anga in Samvat 1128 and commentaries on Angas 71-11 during this interval or at some other time. As stated by him in his com. on Anga V there was a tīkā for Anga V which enabled him to compose his com., and this tīkā may be the work of Šīlānka Sūri. But for Thāna etc. he had no previous commentaries to consult. Abhayadeva Sūri has also commented upon Ovavāüya by taking the help of a previous com., which is now extinct. He has written Sangahani on Pannavaņā (III).
Droņa Sūri has commented upon Ohanijjutti. He assisted Abhayadeva Sūri by revising his cominentaries on Angas 3 etc.
Malayagiri Sūri has commented upon Uvangas II-VII. His com. on Pannavanā is based upon that of Haribhadra Sūri. For the rest, the sources, if any, remain to be investigated. He has written a com. on Viāhapannatti (II), Avassaya, Kappa, Vavahāra, Joisakarandaga and Pindanijjutti.3
Maladhārin Hemacandra Sūri, a senior contemporary of Kali. kālasarvajña Hemacandra Sūri, has written a ţippaņaka on Haribhadra Sūri's com. on Āvassaya, a țippanaka on Nandi and a com. on Anuogaddāra.
Devendra Gaņi, later on known as Nemicandra Sūri has written a com. on Uttarajjhayana in Samvat 1129. Herein he has given narratives in Prāksta and thus followed in the foot-steps of Haribhadra Sūri and Vādivetāla sānti Sūri and not in those of Silānka Sūria.
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The com. on the 7th was preceded by the com. on the 6th as the latter is there referred to, in the end. Same is the case with the com. on the 8th. He is the author of Jayatihuyanathotta, a hymn in A pabhransa and that of Mahāvīrastotra of 22 verses. He is said to have converted in A. D. 1054 Sankaradāsa a Brāhmana guru of the Paramāra kings of Dhārā. In Jaina Granthāvali (p. 20) it is said that in the Byhattippanikā is noted Malayagiri Sūri's com. on Visesão, but no Ms. is traced up till now. This shows that there is no hard and fast rule that since the time of Sīlānka, Prākṣta narrations got replaced by Samskrta ones in commentaries, though such a rule is practically laid down by Prof. Leumann in Z, D. M. G. (vol. XLVI, p. 581 ff.).
