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JASAHARACARIU
Tanjore in 1912. According to that editor, the poet Vadiraja lived in the second half of the 10th century A. D. This work therefore must be regarded as almost contemporaneous with our work. Vadirāja calls himself to be the author of the Ekibhāvastotra and Parśvanathacarita which are published, and of Kakutsthacarita :
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श्रीपार्श्वनाथ काकुत्स्थचरितं येन कीर्तितम् ।
तेन श्रीवादिराजेनारब्धा याशोधरी कथा || ६ ||
5. Somakîrti composed a Yośodharacarita in Sanskrit. The work is divided into eight cantos as in Sakalakirti's. There are two MSS. of this work, No 549 of 1884-86 and No. 167 of 1872-73 at the Bhandarkar Institute. The author gives the date of the composition as samvat (?) 1536, i. e., 1479 A. D. in the colophon which runs as follows:--
नन्दोतटाख्यगच्छे वंशे श्रीरामदेवसेनस्य ।
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निर्मितं तस्य शिष्येण श्रीयशोधरसंज्ञिकम् । श्री सोमकीर्तिमुनिना विशोध्याधीयतां बुधाः ॥ ९४ ॥ वर्षे षट्त्रिंशसंख्ये तिथिपरिगणिना युक्तसंवत्सरे वै पञ्चम्यां पौषकृष्णे दिनकर दिवसे चोत्तराभे हि चन्द्रे । गौढियां मेदपाटे जिनवरभवने शीतलेन्द्रस्य रम्ये सोमादीकीर्तिनेदं नृपवरचरितं निमितं शुद्धभक्त्या ॥ ९५ ॥
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6. Manikyasūri or Manikyadevasuri composed a Yasodharacarita in Sanskrit It is divided into fourteen cantos and the Granthasamkhyā is 1350. There are two MSS. of this work, No. 1308 of 1884-87 and No. 1332 of 1887-91 at the Bhandarkar Institute. There is no mention of the date of the work or of MSS. Manikyasūri, however, mentions Haribhadra as his predecessor on the theme.
7. Padmanabha composed a Yasodharacarita in Sanskrit in nine cantos. There is one MS. of this work, No. 1161 of 1891-95 at the Bhandarkar Institute which does not give any indication as to the date of the composition or of the MS. Is he the same as Padmanatha, author of MS. No. 7805 in Rai Bahadur Hiralal's Catalogue? He must however be older than Pandit Lakhmīdāsa who composed his Yasodharacarita in old Hindi in Samvat 1781, i. e., in 1724 A. D., after the model of Padmanabha.
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8. Púrpadeva composed a small work in 311 Sanskrit stanzas on Yasodhara, of which there is a MS. No. 548 of 1884-86 at the Bhandarkar Institute. I could not get any clue to fix the date of the author.
9. Kṣamakalyaņa composed a Yasodharacarita in Sanskrit prose and in eight chapters. There is one copy of the MS., No. 394 of 1880-81, of this work at the Bhandarkar Institute. In the introduction to his work, Kṣamākalyāņa mentions Haribhadra as a writer of a Prakrit Yasodharacarita :
श्रीहरिभद्रमुनीन्द्रैर्विहितं प्राकृतमयं तथान्यकृतम् । संस्कृतपद्यमयं तत्समस्ति यद्यपि चरित्रमिह ||८|| तदपि तयोर्विषमत्वादर्थावगमो हि तादृशो न भवेत् । तदहं गद्यमयं तत्कुर्वे सर्वावबोधते ॥ ९ ॥
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