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prabandha of this Prabandhävalt "are traced in a corrupt form to the Prihviraja-rāso ascribed to post Canda, a friend and contemporary of Pythviraja, the last Hindu sovereign of Delhi. These citations have gone a long way to show that the published Pythviraja-raso is not a later work in toto, as some scholars are inclined to believe, but that the Rāso has very old nucleus, which is earlier than at least 1234 A. D., the date of Jinabhadra's work."
The following may be enumerated, in their chronological order, as other outstanding specimens of the Prabandha Literature :
(1) The Prabhāvakacurita of Prabhà candra (1277 A.D.), written throughout in verse, first published by the Nirnaya Sagara Press, Bombay in 1909 A.D), and then in a more perfect form by Mani Jina vijayaj! as no. 13 of the Singhi Jaina Series in 1940 A.D. It contains 22 prabandhas relating the life-stories of the principal Svetambara pontists right from Vajra. swå min (c. Ist cent. B.C.) up to Hemacancràcārya (12th cent. A.D.), in continuation of lema candra's Parišiştaparkun or Sthavira. talicarila. It includes important historical anecdotes regarding a number of great kings and poets of outstanding importance.
(2) The Pravandhacintamani of Merutungacarya ( 1395 A.D.), as a specimen of the Prabandha form par excellence, gives a large number of historical dates, a feature not common in Sanskrit literature. "It is a principal source-book of the history of medieval Hindu Gujarita from the times of Cauluk ya Milarāja to the end of the Hindu ruie, s.c., it covers roughly the period from the middle of the oth cent. t.) the end of the 13th cent. A.D.". It was published by Muni Jina vijayaji as no. I of the Singhi Jaina Series in 1933. It contains in all 135 prahundhas under JI main topics divided into 5 Prakasas.
(3) The Kalpa-pradipa or Vividhatirthakalpa of Jina prabha (1333 A.D.) is a unique work, important from both historical as well as geograpbical view.points, serving as a guide.book, so to say, for all the prominent holy places of Jaina religion which existed in the 14th cent. It comprises 63 Kalpas or chapters out of which 12 are hymns, 7 are biographies and the rest are descriptions of holy places of pilgrimage. It was published by Muni Jinavija yaji as no. 10 of the Singhi Jaina Series in 1934 A.D. It
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PPS, Introduction, pp. 8-10; LCV, p. 145. + LSJS, P. 2.
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