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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The Date of Siddharshi.
I have not been able to get a copy of Dr. Buihlers life of Hemchandra. It is out of print now.
Hoping that this will find you in good health.
Yours sincerely, H. JACOBI.
Bonn. 7th Dec. 1906. Neibutirstrasse 59.
DEAR SIR!
Since I wrote last, I have come across two facts which may turn out important for settling the date of Haribhadra. In the 4th Astaka V. 2 f. he quotes the Sivadharmottara, Though the date of that work is not known, still is quoted by several authors from the ninth century A. D. downward. It is therefore probable that it is at much older, at any rate not so many centuries as it should be if Haribhadra had lived in the beginning of the 6th century A. D.
Secondly, in the 13th Astaka Haribhadra quotes a verse ef some Яgia, who accordingly to the commentator is faze. Now Siddhasena in his Prasasti in the Tika of the Tattvarthadhigama (Peterson 3rd Report p.84) says that Dinnaganin, his third predecessor, did not use manuscripts when teaching the pravacana, but he does not mention this habit of Dinna's successor Simhasura. The practice to use manuscripts in teaching came up with Devarddhiganin, for it is expressly stated that before his time books were not used. Therefore Dinnaganin was either the last to use no book being accordingly a contemporary of Devarthigani, or he discarded books while other teachers used them because he was more learned than they; in that case he would be later than Devardhiganin. At any rate Dinraganin can not be placed earlier than 980 Vira, probably much later. Siddhasena is in the fourth generation after him (Dinnaganin, Sinhasura, Bhaswamin, Siddhasena); the earlist date, we could asign to him, would be about Vira 1020. Now Haribhadra lived after him, probably some generations later as I tried to show in my last letter. (Hari
