Jain Journal 1973 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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monarchs Amoghavarsa and the latter's son and successor Krishna II (A. D. 884-913)'. The significance of the works of the two Jaina authors lies in the fact that Jinasena's Adipurāna contains one of the finest presentations of the Jaina theory of the origin of government which we shall presently describe10.
In his Uttarapurāna, Gunabhadra continues and completes the theory of the origin and nature of Government as given by his teacher Jinasena, and gives biographical sketches of the twentythree Tirthankaras who followed Rsabha at long intervals of time, and of Rama, Krsna,
a, Jivandhara, and very many other Jaina heroes. It inculcates profuse patronage of learning by the government but “its political ideas are few and old”11
After the time of Jinasena and Gunabhadra there appeared Somadeva Suri, one of the most illustrious of Jaina political theorists, who will require a separate treatment by himself. In what way he departed from Jinasena will be narrated below.
The political theories of Jinasena were continued to some extent not in the Deccan but in Gujarat where in the twelfth century there appeared one of the most illustrious of Jaina teachers and authors--the encyclopaedist Hemacandracarya, who lived from A.D. 1089 till A.D. 1173. We shall have to mention him in some detail below. Here it is enough to observe that of his numerous works the Laghu-Arahnniti closely followed, in regard to some topics, the model of Jinasena's Adipurāna, although it draws freely upon its Brahmnical predecessors12.
To the same age (the twelfth century A.D.) are to be assigned the following works. First comes Lomaprabhacarya's Kumārapālabodh, composed in about A.D. 119513. In this we have a king who is gradually converted to Jainism and led on the ideal path by the great Hemcandracarya. The reference here could have been only to the well-known
• Rice, op. cit., p. 67. The interval between the last year of Amoghavarsa I and the
first regnal year of Krishna II is not discussed in this paper. 10 Beni Prasad, ibid, p. 221. The text of the Adipurana was published with a Hindi
translation by Lala Ram Jain in the Syadvada Granthamala No. 4, Indore. For a full account of Jinasena, read my Medieval Jainism under Jinasena 1, pp. 38. n;
39, 234, 235. n; 274, 276, n. 277. 11 Beni Prasad, ibid, p. 227. 12 Beni Prasad, op. cit., p. 227.
Lomaprabhacarya, Kumarapalabodha, cdited by Muniraj Jinavijaya, Gaekwad Oriental Series, No. XIV, Baroda.