Jainism in Gujarat

Author(s): Chimanlal Bhailal Sheth
Publisher: Godiji Jain Temple Mumbai

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kara of the Jains and was completed in the reign of Jayasimhadeva In V. Samvat 1185 (A. D. 1128-29), he wrote a Vivarana on the Prasamaratı of Umāsvāti in Anahılavāda. Tradition puts to his credit the biographies of twenty-four Tirthankaras, but the Chandraprabhacharitra, the Mallinathacharitra and the Neminathacharitra only are available to us. The last work was completed in S 1216 (A D. 1159-60) in the reign of Kumarapala. Haribhadra's works give us valuable information about the Jain ministers of Gujarata 53
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Jineśvara composed the Mallināthacharitra in Präkrita in V. S. 1175 (or A D. 1118–19). The work deals with the life of the nineteenth Tirthankara of the Jains.8 81
Vijayasimhasūri was a pupil of Santisūri who was a pupil of Nemichandra in the Chandragatchha. He was the author of the Sravakapratikramanasūtrachurns in V. Samvat 1183 (A. D. 1126-7). The work contains 4500 verses."
Dharmaghoshasūri was a pupil of Silabhadrasūri of Rājāgatchha He composed the Dharma
80 Gandhi, "Siddharaja and Jains", Nos 40-41 Haribhadra's Kshetrasamasavritti was completed in Anahılavada in A. D 1128-29. 81 Desai, loc cit., p, 250. 82 Peterson, V, 22,