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Dr. Charlotte Krause : Her Life & Literature
varnanaṁ by Gunaratnasūri', the Tapāgacchapattāvalīsutra by Dharmasāgaragaņi“ (both Svetāmbara works ) and the Pravacanaparīkņā by Yogindradeva’ ( a Digambara work ), it has assumed the special meaning of 'Digambara ascetic' in contradistinction to
Svetāmbara ascetic'. This meaning is confirmed by the lexicographers Hemacandra ( Śvetāmbara ) and Śrīdharasena ( Digambara )8, and by the non-Jinistic Prabodhacandrodaya". In which sense it is used in the Avadānakalpalatā0, the Mudrārāksasa'l, the Pañcatantral, and other works, seems as uncertain as in the abovequoted stanza. Since, however, Siddhasena is claimed by Digambaras as well as Svetāmbaras as belonging to their respective sect13 and since – for the matter of that – he probably flourished at a time when the earlier meaning may still have been in force, there is certainly nothing in the way of applying the expression to him.
In the Ganaratnamahodadhi of Vardhamāna, it is true, the word 'Kșapaņaka' or 'Mahākṣapaņaka' seems to be used as the proper name of a grammarian, author of an Anekārthakośa or Anekārthadhvanimañjarī, and of an Ekārthakośa.14
Accordingly, the possibility might be considered whether the author of the Jyotirvidābharaṇa, too, has not used the word as a proper noun rather than a generic one, applied to an author who represented that station in life. A glance on the context, however, shows that six out of the 'Nine Gems' ( viz., Amarasimha, Sanku, Ghatakharpara, Kālidāsa, Varāhamihira and Vararuci) are mentioned twice, viz., once as 'Gems' and another time as ‘Kavis' or “Kālatantra-kavis' respectively. It is therefore likely that the ‘Kșapaņaka' in the group of 'Gems' is nothing but a second reference, under his generic designation, to Śrutasena who figures in the preceding stanza as a 'Kālatantra-kavi'. That'Śrutasena', according to prosodic and grammatical rules, is a regular substitute for ‘Siddhasena', has been pointed out by the commentator of the Jyotirvidābharaṇa, Bhāvaratna's. It is further corroborated by the fact that, though none of Siddhasena Divākara's astronomical
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