Indian Antiquary Vol 45

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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FEBRUARY, 19101
THE NYASAKARA AND THE JAINA SAKATAYAXA
In my paper entitled Bhâmaha's Attacks on Jinendrabuddhi referral to above, I have isted that, according to an anonymous verse current among the Jainas in Southern India and a reference in the Ep. Carn. Vol. VIII, p. 268, Prabhachandra is credited with the allithorship of a Nyása on Sakațâyana's Sabdanusagana Can this be reconciled with the ciate which we have assigned to Sâkațâyana ? This question can be answered in the it itirmative, since Prabhachandra, in his second work entitled Nya yakumullachandroilaya, i lar MS. p. 249a cites the following verse from Gunabhadra's Atmánu asana :
अंधादयं महानंधी विषयांधीकृतेक्षणः। THT srufer U
1 1 .Itmánu ásaina, verse 35. Gunabhadra was the teacher of Krishnarâja II, while the latter was Yuvaraja. It 1 thus clear that Prabhachandra lived on into the first half of the ninth century. It is
ssible that he may have written a commentary called Nyâsit on the Sandinusasunnot Sikatậyana, whose literary activity must be placed between Saka 735-789. But to be able to pronounce a definite opinion on this point, we must wait till we have discovered at least one manuscript of the Sakafayana-nyása. At the same time we must remember the interesting fact that in his first work entitled Prameya-kamala-martanla Prabhachandra very frequently quotes Sûtras from the Jainendra-vylikarana.
#TRA I, 4, 37. Pramey. Benares Ed. p. 2 (a).
For I, 4, 1. Pramey. Benares El. p. 2 (b). G T I, 4, 35. Pramey. Benares Ed. p. 26 (1).
art II, 1, 44. Pramey. Benares Ecl. p. 209 (a).
TUTTE I, 2, 175. Pramey. Benares Ed. p. 219 (a). The fact that Jainendra-sútras are often quoted in the Prameyri-ku mala-mariu wa may nly indicate that the first work of Prabhachandra was composed before the accession to the throne of Amoghavarsha I.
Another commentary on the Sútras of Sakațâyana, which deserves to be noticed here, - the Prakriya-saingraha of Abhayachandrasûri, who is also well-known as the author a Sanskrit commentary on the tomatasara, a work written in Magadhî by Nemichandra
instruct his patron" Châmun larája. At the end of each chapter of his Sanskrit mnientary Abhayachandra calls himself Abhayachandrasuri, Abhavasûri or Suriin Ilie concluding verses of the Prakriya-sa sigraha we are told that :
are farrei this is the work of Sûri, i.e., Abhayachandrasûri. His pupil Ko-avavarni or Keavannt, who His rendered into Canarese the Sanskrit commentary on the Gomasin alluded to above.
ys that he finished his work in Saka 1281. From this fact it may be conclude that the Sikatayina-prakriyâsa igrah of Abhayachandra was composed shortly before Saka 1281.
As I have already said, the Jaina Saka ayana has been undeserveelly forgotten among i Svetambara Jaina community, being supersccled by the more celebrated Homa
andra. But among the Digambara Jainas the belief is current that this author is entical with his celebrated namesake of antiquity. The elder Sükatavana also enjoyed
stinction as a great grammarian, being quoted by Kitya vana in his Vájasaneya - l'rátikákhya IV, 127 and 189, by Panini in his Ashadhyâ . 4, 11 & VIII, 3, 18, by Yáska in his Virukta I, 4. Patañjali says :--
coprai TRT 378 VIA TH Mahâbhâshy 11, 3, 3.
mai h at ter sreta: izarrara Jahabhåskyu III, 2, 15 The latest reference to the elder Sakatayana is the following:
WEST TTTT: käsiki I, 4, 86. After the middle of the seventh century the elder Sa kativana's work must have been ist beyond recovery. In the twelfth century Vardhamana, the author of the Ganaratnamahodadhi, knows only the Jaina Sakatayana, whom he frequently quotes, Bopadeva and Thattojidikshita, who also often refer to the Jaina grammarinn, speak of him an Abhinara
akutayanau. Prof. Macdonell's description of him, as the seco-Saka-ayana,' is hardly Lair, considering the high place which this eminent Jaina author Occupies in the history of Sanskrit literature.
Colobooke's Essays, Vol. II, p. +4, Prau thamanorami. Benares El. Part II, p. 625. 7 Hist. of Sans. Lit. p. 432.