Book Title: Indian Antiquary Vol 27
Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

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________________ 50. THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [FEBRUARY, 1898. self furnishes as with the dates, on which sereral pieces of his compilation were composed The earliest date stands at the end of the Satrumjayakalpa, with which the work begins : swart ratefroman pareitt समग्यां तपसः काव्यप्रदेशोब समर्थितः ।। १३३।। On the seventh day of the month of Magha (Tapas), in the dark half, in the year of illustrions Vikrama, measured by the varnar (4) the eight and the Višvédêrns (13, or V. S. 1384) this portion of the poem was completed.' The latest occurs at the end of the whole, fol. 120 b, l. 17: नंदानेकपशक्तिशीनगुमिते श्रीविक्रमोवपितेवर्षे भाद्रपदस्थ मास्ववरजे सौम्ये दशम्यां तिथी। श्रीहम्मीरेमहम्मद प्रतपति मामंडलाषंडले ग्रंथोवं परिपूर्णतां समभजड़ीयोगिनीमने ॥ In the year of the illnstrions king Vikrama measured by the nandas (9), the elephants (8), the saktis (3) and the moon (1, or V. S. 1399), in the second (half) of the month of Bha. drapada, on the tenth day, Wednesday, While the illustrious Hammira Mahammada (Mohammed Tughlak, A. D. 1325-1351) brilliantly shone as king of the earth, this book was completed in the town of the Yoginis (Delhi).' The Tirthakalpa, which is written partly in faulty Sanskrit and partly in Jaina Maharashtri with many Gujarnticisms, gives descriptions of all the grent sanctuaries of the seet, known to the author, and has been compiled, as he himself repeatedly indicates, from earlier works and from the traditions of those who know the past (purávidám). None of its namerous legends are therefore inventions of Jinaprabha. It also contains various, evidently accurate, statements regarding the history of his own time and possesses some value for the ancient geography of India, on which account the late Dr. Bhagvânlal Indraji recommended its study to me. What it says regarding the Mathurd Stupa 'built by the gods,' is as follows: 1. "Adoring the seventh and the twenty-third Jina lords, the refuge of the world, I will declare the Mathurakalpa, which gives luck to good men." 2. “When the teaching of Supar. śranatha prevailed, there were two lion-like ascetics, devoid of worldly attachment, called Dharmaruchi and Dharmaghosha." "And these men who performed austerities for one, two and three months by (partaking of every) six, eighth, tenth or twelfth (meni) or by fasting for half a month, and who awakened good people, once wandered to the town of Mathurâ. At that time Mathura, that is laved by the water of the neighbouring Yamana, extended over twelve yojanas, as adorned with an excellent rampart, was resplendent with white temples of the gods, oblong and round wells, tanks, mansions of the Jinas and markets, and contained a multitude of (Veda-)reciting Brahmans, belonging to various chaturvidyus.10 There the excellent asceties remained during the four months of the rains fasting in a garden filled with various trees, flowers, fruits and The MS., which I hare used, is Dr. Peterson's No. 1256 of the Bombay Collection of 1887/88. It reads in this verse erroneously, in the first line TITATE YTTE°, and in the second tist. . Dr. Paterson, Fourth Report, p. xxxvii.. gives by a slip of the pen Samvat 1827 instead of A.D. 1329 as the date of the Apåpabribatkalpa and states that Jinsprabha's knowa dates range from S. 1349-1969. The M3. consulted has for the Apåpábrihatkalps the date V. S. 1383. The wording of the text is here ungrammatical, because the correct expression T H T did not suit the metre. According to Dr. Schram, who has kindly calculated the date, it corresponde to August 28, 1931, when the tenth Tithi of the dark balf of Bhdrapada ended at 20 h. 52 m. His account of the conquest of Gujarat by Und Khan (Ulugh Ka.) younger brother of Allavadiņa (AllL riddin Khiljt)), which occurs in the Satyapurakalpa, has been separately published. 10 - Corporations of Brahmans including adherents of all the four Vedas," which usually were formed and endowed with trittis on the foundation of Indian towns.

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