Book Title: Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1915 Book 11 Jain Itihas Sahitya Ank
Author(s): Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference
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Shri Jaina Conference Herald.
be taken as 535+470=1005 or 1055 Vikrama or taking it as a Gupta date 70 years earlier, under any supposition he comes in the middle of the 10th or 11th Vikrama century. According to former supposition Haribhadra comes in before 50 years or just in a contemporary period. (i. e. accepting 1005 or 1055 respectively). first let us see how he quotes Haribhadra. In his acaça AETHICE per 3 Shanti Soori says:
जइ एवं किं भणिआ तिविहा हरिभद्दसूरिणा सत्ते जिनविंबस्स पइटा जं भणिओवत्ति पइट्टाएमा इत्यादि.
The question under consideration is how many kinds of Jāgrs (installation of idols) are prescribed. Shanti Soori himself prescribed several modes. Then the question arises owing to the fact that Haribhadra prescribed three kinds of sıfagr only in his works. Then the difficulty is solved.
Now (I) had ITaribhadra been a contempory, he would never have been quoted following the usual rule. ( II ) Shanti soori says that Haribhadra prescribed three kinds ofgiągi in qə i. e. This word på is very significant. Thecompositions of ancient authors who flourished with in the period of 1000 years after Shri Vira can only be said to be as or of the authors just within or near that period i.e, on the brink of that period. The explanation of ascribing to their work the higher name of ag is simply this viz. that they had the advantage of knowing Pooryas-the direct revealatious of the immediate desciples of Shri Vira known as Ganadharas. No subsequent author can competewith the old 5-writers as to the genuineness and authenticity of their works. Thus the word ag is placing Haribhadra in or near the period of one thousand years after Vira. (III) No modern author required any refutation at the hands of Shanti souri who, according to THU afis was a great man in his days and wielded an unbounded authority. In fact he him. self was an authority.
(IV) Haribh dra prescribed three kinds of vàer which in subsequent time expanded into more than that number. Now according to the proverbial sluggishness in the introduc
