Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1915 Book 11 Jain Itihas Sahitya Ank

Author(s): Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference

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The Date of Siddharshi
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tion of any new idea in an oriental country this can only be the case after an interval of good many centuries.
(V) This is a fagaray a work on the rituals in which later authors are not regarded as authorities. Of course they are not disregarded, but when a question of some nicety is to be confronted, their authority is not of any value or at the most of very little value; while, you will see from this quotation and the several which are put hereafter that even in a farsario he is spoken of as a high authority. Further on the same author in the same book says:
धम्मथ्थिणा हु पढमं आगमतत्तं मणे धरेयव्वं ।
तथ्थ पुण पयडमेयं भणियं परमथ्थनाणिहिं. ॥ Then follows ita from jalg of Haribhadra beginning with 945 h 4591. (Slok 209 ) Further on he expressly quotes Haribhadra हरिभदसूरी वंदणपंचासए एवं. So on सो पुण पुव्वकविहिं, भणिओ चिअ ललिअविथ्थराइसु । किं तु महामइगम्पो ॥
(Slok 259 ) All the quotations are importart. Those underlined are to be specially marked. (VI) You very well know that a man can never be said to be a qtalyator unless he is put in the Poorva period or very ancient.
(VII) Hero Shanti soori says that what Haribhadra says is AEIAESFAT, the same remark applies. In a fargargin such a hightoned tribute has never been known to have been given to a modern author. : (VIII) Shanti soori says that what he says is prescribed by such books beginning with grealaeatr ( zresfacette), a placitum which not only shows the antiquity of the book, but depicts it as a fountain head. Other books of the same type follow this original work as its sequel. From the subsequent quotation from Devendrasoori this argument will be more clear.
(IX) Lastly Shanti soori calls him a gaawie which shows reverence due to him owing to his age. I should like to draw your attention particularly to this word as it is very significant,