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INTRODUCTION
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MUNIRAJ SHRI JINAVIJAYA read a paper (in Sanskrit) at the First [All-India) Oriental Conference (Poona 1919) on The Date of Hiribhadrasūri'. It is an exhaustive paper which scrutinises the views of earlier scholars, lists the works attributed to Haribhadra, enumerates the traditional sources for his biography, and takes up for discussion the traditional date, A.D. 529, assigned to him, Siddharsi's (A.D. 906) reference to him as me dharma-prabodha-karo guruh and consequent conclusion of H. JACOBI that Haribhadra was a senior contemporary and guru of Siddharși. JINAVIJAYA shows that Gargarşi was the guru of Siddharsi and correctly interprets the latter's reference to Haribhadra. It is in this context that he quotes the Kuvalayamālā (p. 4, 1. 2) and reaches the conclusion that Haribhadra, the author of Samarāditya-kathā could not be later than A. D. 778. Then he studies the various references from Haribhadra's works, quotes an extract from the Kuvalayamālā (corresponding to p. 282, 1. 6 to l. 20) from the Ms. P, and assigns Haribhadra to A. D. 700-770. In the appendix, the chronological relation of Haribhadra with Sāntaraksita, Dharmottara, Mallavādi and Samkara are indicated.
The Brhattippanikā is an old valuable list of Jaina works prepared in Sam. 1440 (-57), i.e., A. D. 1383 by some Jaina monk acquainted with the Mss.-collections at Pattan, Cambay and Broach etc. (but not Jaisalmer). It was used by the compilers of the Jaina Granthāvali, noted above. It is published
ased on the Ms., three to four hundred years old, belonging to the collection of Śrī Kāntivijayajī Jaina Jñānamandira, Baroda) by MUNI JINAVIJAYA.?. Therein the references to the Kuvalayamālā (p. 10) stand thus:
320. FESTAST OT. . [(?)] <34 20 square ftar 13000 1 321. AZ E. TTHETIT 34881
A Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Jain Bhandars at Jesalmere, compiled by C. D. DALAL and edited with Introduction, Indexes and notes on Unpublished Works and their Authors by L. B. GANDHI was published in 1923. It presents the entry of the Ms. of the Kuvalayamālā in this manner (p. 27): 229. CUTATET of FENT (EFFITU) af 254 leaves. 23 x 2
Col:-इति कुवलयमाला नाम संकीर्णकथा . संवत् ११३९ दातु (आसु) वदि १ रविदिन
लिखितमिदं पुस्तकम् । In his Sanskrit Intro. and its notes (pp. 42-43) Pt. GANDHI gives some bits of information about this work (possibly based on the extracts from the Poona Ms. quoted by the Editor in the Introduction to the edition of its Sanskrit digest by Ratnaprabha published from Bhavanagar and noted above), especially quoting references to Uddyotana by Ratnaprabha and Devacandra.*
1 Separately issued, pp. 1-23, in the Jaina Sāhitya Samsodhaka Granthamālā, Poona. 2 Jaina Sāhitya Samsodhaka I, 2, Supplement pp. 1-16, Poona (1920?); see also Ibidem I, 4,
pp. 157-58. 3G. O. S., No. XXI, Central Library, Baroda 1923. 4 PETERSON, in his Fifth Report, already noted above, gave an extract from the Kantināthacarita of Devacandra (Sam. 1160, i.e., A.D. 1103) afacagaf ThfH arquor THT TUTTI
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