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(2) Rājas'okhara's Praban thakos'a, written in samvat 1405 = 1349 A. D. I know only some extracts of this work given by Kalyānavijaya l. c. p. 8a, 2ta.
(c) Sumatigaui's Vrtti of the Ganadharasärdha-s'ataka (see 1) finished samrat 1295=1239 A, D., occasionally referred to by Kalyanavijaya. An abridgement of Sumatigani's narrative is given in the Laghurrtti of Sarvarājagani, see A. Weber, I. c. p. 988.
(f) Kathāvali of Bhadres'vara, dato unknown; mentioned by Juavijaya and not otherwise known to me.
I shall now discuss some traditions about particulars of Haribhadra's life which may be regarded as substantially true.
The birth place of Haribhadra was, according to a c, d, e, Citrakūta the modern Chitor. The ancient fort on the crest of the hill' was the capital of Newar from about the 7th century till 1569 when the seat of government was moved to Udaipur, Haribhadra probably lived in Chitor up to his initiation. But the scene of his later life as a monk seems to have been chiefly the neighbouring parts of Rājputānā and the kingdom of Guzerat. In that country, he became the teacher of Uudyotana? Another indication of Haribhadra's activity in Guzerat is furnished by the annals of Ja na families: for according to Kalyānavijaya (1. c. p. 7b ) they assert that Haribhadra organised the clan of the Porevals (Porurāda, Prügvāta ) and converted them to Jainism. Now we learn from the Nemināhacariu that the Poreval elan originated in Srimāla, that a warlike member of this clan Nimaya, was inducel by Vanarāja (746-806 A. D. ) to settle in his new capital Anahilla pătaka, and that he there erecte a temple of Reabha for the Vidyadhara-gaccha. Since Haribhadra, the organiser of the Poreval clan, belonged to the Vidyadharagaccha," it is likely that that clan owed some sort of allegiance to that gaccha, whereof the statement in the Nemināhacariu seems to furnish a proof. Although Haribhadra may have lived for the greater part of his life in Guzerat and the adjoining States of Rājputānā, yet his wanderings as a Yati probably extended to far distant parts of India. Some hints about his knowledge of India may be gathered from the Samarāiccakahā. In this regard it is significant, that he does not lay the scene of any of his tales in one of the renowned towns of the Deccan or Southern India. but all towns that can be identified' are situated in Northern India, from Hastinapura to Tämralipta. He evinces a more intimate acquaintance with Eastern India between Ayodhya
1 The phrase in e: S'ricitrakuţacalacalānivasino olearly refers to the ancient town
on the hill. 2 The verses 4 and 6 in the passage quoted from the Kuvalayamálă by Jinavijaya
(1. o. p. 15 ) prove that Uddyotana belonged to a line of yatis that flourished
in Guzerat. 3 See my edition of the 'Sanatkumāracaritam' in the Abhandlungen der Bayerischen
Akademie der Wissenschalten, Munchen, 1921, p. 152, der Bayerischen Arademie der Wissenschaften, Munchen, 192 1, p. 152, VIII-V, and the additional note
on p. VI ib. 4 The modern Bhinmal in the extreme south of Mārvād. Udd yotanasuri
names the town Siribhillamåla. It was the capital of Guzerat before the foundation
of Anahillapātaka by Vanarāja, the first of the Capotkata or Cavada kings. 6 For he calls his teacher Jinadatta an ornament of the Vidyādbaragaccha. According
to the Harshanandanagani (1616 A. D.) he was a member of Vrddhagaocha,
see Kalyāņavijaya. l. o. p. 11b. 6 The cause of his want of acquaintance with Peninsular India was probably the
circumstance that in his time there were few, if any, Svetambara communities
south of the Tapti. 7 Those in the fabulous country of Aparavideha, of course, do not concern us.
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