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INTRODUCTION
Sanskrit Renaissance in the Moghal Period.
I referred earlier to the Sanskrit Renaissance in the Moghal Period-particularly in the reigus of Akbar, Jahangir and Shahjahan. We know that Jagannatha who was given the title of Papditaraja by Prof. V. A. Shahjahan at the instance of Asafkhan lived in this age.1 Ramaswami Sastri in his work Jagannatha Pandita' refers to about sixteen comtemporaries of whom Kavindracarya Sarasvati was a protege of Shahjahan. Sri Desai in his introduction to B. C. gives an account of thirteen Jaina priscis at the art of Akbar and thirteen The Jain at the court of Jahangir-some of whom are common, writers of the age were, however, many more than these. A review of the works of Brahmanical and Jain writers of the sixteenth and the soventeenth centuries would show that it was an age of vigorous literary and philosophical activity in India. as a whole and as the instances of Padmasundara-author of Akabaraśāhi – Śṛṁgāradarpana, Hiravijayasūri, Jagannatha, Bhanucandrs, Siddhicandra and Kavindracārya Sarasvati would prove, Sanskrit learning received encouragement and patronage in the courts of Akbar, Jahangir and Shābjahan.
A note on Siddhicandra and Jagannatha
The parallel references given above from Rasagangadhara and a more detailed comparison of K. P. K. and R. G. would go to show that there are many ideas which S. and Jagannatha hold in common and that in several cases even phrasing is identical; though they differ
वाग्देवीमभिवं वंद्यचणं वृन्दारकाणां गणैः सर्वेषां तुधियामनुग्रह धियां गंभीर भावाद्भुतम् ध्याकरणं विद्रवाति वाकपतिः श्रीसिद्धिरेद्राभिषः शाधिश्रीमदकन्दर क्षितिपतेः प्रातिष्ठद्रयः ॥ १
पाठयो)
It ends: शास्त्रान्तरेऽप्रविष्टानां बालानां चोपकारिका । निर्मिता सिद्धिचंद्रेश लघुसिद्धान्तकौमुदी ॥ १ इति पादसाह श्री अकबर eto. श्रीसिद्धिचंद्रगणिविरचिता लघुसिद्धांतकौमुदी समाप्ता ॥ छ ॥ शुभं भवतु । बाइ पुस्तके दृष्टं ato. संवत् १७०३ वर्षे फाल्गुन शुद्धि २ तियो भृगुदिने लिखितं ॥ छ ॥ श्रीः । The last page 42-k contains a seal.
1 p. 13. Jagannatha Pandita.
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7 Ibid. (1) Khandadevamisra, (2) Jagadisatarkulaṁkāra (3) Gadadharabbaṭṭā. carya, (4) Bhattoji Diksita, (5) Naraynabhaṭṭa (of Malabar) (6) Nilakapṭha Diksita, (7) Rajacāļamaņi Dikşita, (8) Venkaṭādhvarin. (9) Cokhanathamakbin, (10) Dharmarajadhvarindra, (11) Rämalliadrambā, (13) Madhuravant (13) Kavindracaryasarasvati (14) M.M. Viśvauatha l'ancanana (15: Ramathadra Dikṣita, (16) Madhusudana Sarasvati.
3 pp. 1-22, Introduction to B. C.
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See Sri M. D. Desai's Gujarati work-"Jaina Sahitys on Itihasa" pp. 535-651. 5 Publisher in the Ganga Oriental Series. Bikaner 1943,
