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Commentaries on the Gommatasara
NOTES AND REFERENCES
1 Epigraphia Carnatica, Vol. VIII (Nagar Taluka), Inscription No. 46 (c. 1530 A D.).
2 The beautiful picture, as found in an old manuscript of the Trilokasâra and nicely illustrated on a leaf in the introductory part (after p. xxxviii) of the Dravya-Sangraha, Sacred Books of the Jainas, Vol. I, Arrah 1917, very well gives the idea of this possibility.
3 (i) Pub. in S. B. J. Series, Vol. I, Arrah 1917.
(ii) Some scholars like Pt. J. K. Mukhtar, however, hesitate to attribute the authorship of this work to Acarya Nemicandra. Vide Intro. to Puratana-Jaina-Vakyasuci, Sarsawa 1950, pp. 92-94.
4 Pub. by Gandhi Natharangaji, Bombay 1911.
5 Pub. in Rajacandra Jaina Series, Bombay 1927 and Samv, 1985; in S. B. J. Series Vols. V (1927), VI (1927), X (1937); and in Gandhi Haribhai- Devakarapa Jaina Series, Calcutta.
6 (i) Pub. in Rajacandra Jaina Series, Bombay 1916.
(ii) Many a time, immediately after this work, Kşapaṇasara is also enumerated and attributed to this author. But, in fact, it is the name of the Sanskrit commentary on the 3rd Adhikara of the Labdhisära written by Madhavacandra Traividyadeva.
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7 (i) Acarya Nemicandra himself refers, in his own peculiar way, to this fact in gaha 397 of the Gommaṭasara (Ka.Ka.): jaha cakkena etc. As the Cakravarti conquers the 6 parts (of the Bharatakşetra) with his Cakra without any hindrance, so the six-fold (Scriptural Work) has been duly mastered by me with the Cakra of (my) intelligence.
(ii) and his epithet 'Siddhanta Cakravarti' appears to have accrued from this statement.
8 Brahmadeva has commented in Sanskrit on the Dravya-sangraha and Madhavacandra on the Trilokasara and the Labdhisara. Manuscripts of Kannada commentaries on the Dravyasangraha and the Labdhisara by Keśavavarni and Balacandradeva are noted in the Kannada Prantiya Taḍapatriya Granthasuci, Bharatiya Jñanapitha, Kashi 1948.
9 Pt. J. K. Mukhtar holds that a number of other commentaries on this great work, possibly written during the past few centuries, have not come down to us. Vide op cit., p. 91.
10 Vide Jivatattva Pradipika on Gommațasara: Its author and date, Indian Culture, Vol. VIII-1, 23-33.
11 As noted by R. Narasimhachar in Kavicarite Vol. 1, Bangalore 1923, pp. 46-49.
12 Ibid
13 Jaina Sahitya Aaur Itihasa, Bombay 1956, p. 269.
14 Op. cit., pp. 90-91.
15 Editor's translation of gaha 972, S. B. J. Vol. X, Lucknow 1937.
p. 91.
16 Op. cit.,
17 On p. 6.
18 Could any one of these turn out to be with a vṛtti or chaya of Camunḍaraya?
19 After completing this paper, recently I learnt, with pleasure, that the Bharatiya Jñānapitha is publishing shortly Kešavavarni's Kannada Commentary on the Gommaṭasara as edited by the late Dr. A. N. Upadhye, from whom I could have no chance to get this happy information then.
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