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Vikram Samvat 1193. Vijayasimha wrote a BỊhadvștti (voluminous commentary) on Dharmopadeś imāla, and it was completed in Vikram Samvat 1191. In its prasasti we find personal accounts of his preceptor Hemacandra and grand-preceptor Abhayadeva. From this it appears that some years had passed after the death of Hemacandra.* It can be said that after the death of his preceptor. Abhayadeva in Samvat 1168, he succeeded him on his seat as Ācārya and occupied it till about 1180, for we do not find any reference to a date beyond 1177.
Works --(i) Āvaśyakatippaņa or Āvašyakavșttipiadesavyā'zbyánaka, (ii) Bandhaśata kavịtti, (iii) Anuyogadvāravștti, (iv) Upadešamāja-sutra, (v) Upadeśamalà vịtti, (vi) Jivasamāsavivarana, (vii) Bhavabbāvanāsūtra, (viii) Bhavabhāvanāvivarana, (ix) Nandītippaņa, (x) Višeşāvaśyaka-vivarana (also called Višeşāšsakabhāşya-brhadvștti).
Jivasamāsa-výtti was written in his own hand in Samvat 1164, as the prasasti itselt tells us. In Avaśyakatippaņa or Āvasyakavrttipradeśa-vyakhyānaka (because it is a commentary on parts of Haribhadra's Laghu vrtti on Avašyakasūtra), the author first gives the meaning of hard words and then the substance of the relevant passage. Bandhaśatakavịtti Vinayahitā is a commentary on a contury of stanzas (-really they are 106) called Bandhaśataka, dealing with karma in its details composed by Śivašarmasūri who himself says that the work is based on the Dșstivāda. Hemacandra's commentary is very lucid and easy and shows a thorough grasp of the subject. Anuyogadväravștti is a very lucid commentary on the Anuyogad vārasūtra which helps us to appreciate the very core of the Agamas. Though there was an earlier Prakrit commentary (cūrni) and also one in Sanskrit by Haribhadra (this being mostly by way of explanation of the Prakrit commentary), neither went far in
* Śri Hemacandra iti sūrirabhūd amuşya,
ģisyaḥ śiromaņir aśasamuniśvarāņāın; yasyadhunāpi caritāni saracchaśääka
cchāyojjvalāni vilasanti diśām mukheşu. (13) See Catalogue of Works of the Pāțaņa Bhandara, p. 313
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