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yāditya ruled at Ujjayini from 1060 A.D. to 1087 AD. The story in our text starts with the demise of this Udayaditya,
Fifthly, the last prabandha relates the story of Sii Vardd la mâna, suri (pp. 30-31), who, in the end, is reported to have composed the Väsupijacaritra. This last statement is very important from the view point of fixing the date of composition of our text. Because it is stated in the Prabusti at the close of the Vasupujyacaritu* liat it was composed by Var. dhaminasúri at the instance of his pupil Ahladana in V. S. 1299= 1243 A.D.;
atu'sai vidkividhyarka
sankhye vikramaratsure acaryus-caritam cakre
resupujyavibhor-idam || 28 || (p. 471).
According to the Nāgndragaccha-tuttareli also Acrya Vardhaman .. S ŪTI, ul.o is numbered nine there, instructed Dandanayaka Ahladana of the Gulluk kula and inspired lu to get repaired the Vasupujya - swå min temple of the agendrugacche at Paana and at the request of the same Dandanayaka hc composed the Vasupujy.carite of the extent of four Surgas and 54 4 granthas at påtaņa in V. S. 1299 1 =1243 A.D.), while residing in the Upasraya adjoining to the same temple,
As our author makes a definite statement that the pontiff con posed the Vasapajyacaniita (31.3), he must, beyond doubt, have composed his LPS After that incident, i.e., after 1243 A.D.
On the evidence of the above facts we can safely conclude that the Laghu-prabandha sangraha was composed some time between 1243 A.D. and 1409 A.D.
Now we have already seen in the Chapter on Relation With Other Prabandha-Works that in almost all the cases where different versions of the prabandhas are available the version of the LPS is definitely carlier than all the rest including those found in the Prabandhacintamani of li erutunga and the Prabandiakosa of Rajasi khara and that in no case the LPS
* Eclited by Dr. Ambrogio Ballini of Rome and published by Sri Jaina Dharma Prasaraka Sabha, Bhavanagara in 1910 A.D.
1 Juina Parunpara-no Itihusa (in Gujarati), part II, by Muni Darsana vija yaji, Muni shinavíja yaji and Muni V yaya - vijayaji, Anmedabad, 2950 A.D., PP. 5, 676,
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