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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[OCTOBER, 1914.
The identity of the author of the sitras with that of the Amoghavritti seems to have been widely known. Mr. Rice says: “ Sâkatâyana not only wrote the grammar but also & gloes thereon called Amoghavșitti.” In support of this statement Mr. Rice quotes the Munivanjabhyudaya, written in the reign of Chikkadeva Râjâ of Mysore (1672 to 1704), by Chidananda-kavi, who afterwards became the pontiff of Sravana Belgol under the usual title of Charukirti Pandita Deva.
A muni nija-buddhi-Mandaradim srulada mahararddhiya mathisi Prêma-yaío-Lakshmi rerasu ryakarana-mahamțitoddharau esegida 11 Vara-Sabdanuksanava rachisi y-adak uru-Sakalyana-resaraVoredan Amogha-rşitliya padinen!u-8ávirada-grantha-sankhyeyolu II Lôka-rikhydtan a Sakatayana-muni vydkaranada, sitravanu! Sakalya-vritti-samanrita rachisi y-aneka-punyaran arjjisidanu 1! Mandara-dhfran Aviddha-karnnada Padmanandi-siddhanti chakrésa!
and atma-padariya Sakaryana-muni-vşindarakanig ittan olidu 11 I adopt Mr. Rice's translation :
** That muni, churning the great ocean of the śruta (or revealed ruth) with the Mandara mountain of his own understanding, began to uplift (or restore therefrom), along with the loved Lakshmi of fame, the best nectar of grammar. Having composed the excellent Sabdân sâsanum, to it (is) the name of the great Sakatayana, he declared the Amoghavșitti, 18,000 verses in extent. That world-famed Sakațâyana-muni, having composed the sûtrás of the grammar, together with the complete vșitti, acquired a variety of merit. Then Aviddha-karņa Padmanandi siddhanti-chakrésa, firm as Mount Mandara, approving of him, gave his cwn rank (or office, as head of the gaña) to Sakatayana, the revered among munis." Karnataka Sabdânuśâsana, Intro. p. 2
From the passages quoted above it is evident that in the opinion of Yakshavarman and Chidananda, the Slikatayana-sútras and the Amoghavritti were composed by one and the same author who calls himself Sakatayana. I have proved above that this Jaina author lived in the time of Amoghavareha I, that he wrote his work about Saka 789, and that the Amoghavritti was so named in honour of this illustrious Rashtrakata king. The fact that this Sakațâyana wrote the Amoghaoritti as well as the stras was well-known even to. Brahman authors. Vardhamana, the author of the Gararatnamahodadhi, who composed his work only about 273 years later, frequently attributes statements which are found only in the Amoghavritti but not in the skitras to Sâkațâyana himself.
साकटायनस्तु कर्णे टिरिगिरिः करें चुरुचुरुरित्याह. Ganaratnamahodadhi.? Benares ed. p. 82. Amoghavritti. II, 1, 57.
शाकटायनस्तु । भय पञ्चमी | भय द्वितीयेत्याह. Ganaratnamahodadhi. Benares ed. p. 90. S
Amoghavritti II, 1, 79.
am Vardhamana also assures us that this Sakațâyana was not a Digambara but & Svetâmbara writer
शालातुरीयाकटाजजचन्द्रगोमि
दिग्वस्वभप्रेहरिवामनभोजमुख्याः । Vardhamana tells us that he restricts the term forec Digambara to Devanandin the author of the Jainendra-vyakarana. From this we are to infer that the other Jaina grammarian T Sakatayana mentioned in the above verse was & Svetâmbara.
Vardhamana's view that Sakatîyana was a Svetambara is amply borne out by numerous passages in the Amoghavritti.
71 HAPA read . भयो क्षमाश्रमण ज्ञान दीयते
Amoghavritti. I, 2, 201.
1, 2, 202.
