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Ancient Jaina Hymns
421
Introduction to the Gujarati Translation of the Prabhāvaka
carita ( Jaina Ātmānanda Sabhā, Bhavnagar, V.S. 1987), p. 22. 193. L. 1., p. 28 f. 194. Cp. Muni Kalyāņavijaya, loc. cit. 195. Cp. Nirvāņakalikā, I.c., p. 34ff., particularly the regularly
recurring attribute of the ‘Yakṣiṇīs' : 'tasminneva tīrthe
samutpannā'). 196. Cp. Tattv. IV, 11, Bhāsya, p. 282 ( 'sirassu phaņicihnā Nāga
kumārāḥ'). 197. The word 'Vidyā-devi' does not mean 'Goddess of Learning'
at all, as Bhattacharya ( loc. cit., p. 163ff ). translates it, but 'divine personnification of magic lore'. The 'Goddess of
Learning' is the 'Śruta-devī' Sarasvati. 198. The earliest references appear to be : with the Svetāmbaras the
"Nirvāņakalikā' of Pädalipta Sūri, and with the Digambaras
the ‘Pratişthā-sāra' of Vasunandin. 199. Vide M. Bh. Jhaveri, 'Comparative and Critical Study of
Mantra-śāstra’, p. 258. 200. Vide Daksiņāmūrti, 'Uddhārakośa', ed. by Raghuvīra, Intro
duction, p. 9f. 201. Vide M. Bh. Jhaveri, loc. cit., p. 147 ff., and p. 271 ff. 202. Representative are : Sanghadāsa Gani, ‘Vasudevahindi', IV,
p. 163f.; Jinadāsa Gani Mahattara, 'Āvasyaka-Cūrņi', p. 161f; Haribhadra Sūri, “Avaśyaka Tīkā', p. 143ff.; Hemacandra Sūri, 'Trişastiśalākāpuruṣa-carita', III st. 124-233; Vinayavijaya, Kalpasūtra-ţikā ‘Subodhikā', 1, 212 (p. 152 ); Cp. also
M. Bh. Jhaveri, 1. c., p. 175 f and p. 260 ff. 203. These two vidyās are also mentioned in the Sūtrakrtānga-Sūtra
(II, 2, Sūtra 30, p. 318 ). 204. Jambūdvipa-prajñapti IV; Sthānāņga-sūtra X, 3. 205. In her English Translation of the 'Trişastiśalākāpuruşa-carita',
Vol. I, p. 176.
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