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have completed his AMK in the year V. Sam. 1129.22 And our Muni. candrsari is recorded to have died in the year V. Sam. 1178.23
Now, the problem remains about the Municandrasūris listed at numbers thirteen and fourteen, since the one listed at number fifteen is eliminated on the ground of his later date. It is almost resolved by Shri M. D. Desai himself, since in his opinion Municandrasüri listed at number twelve was the grand-disciple of Sarvadevasūri and the common disciple of the latter's disciples named Yaśobhadra and Nemicandra in that he was probably initiated at the hands of the former while he was consecreted as an ācārya' by the latter.24 As to Municandrasūri, the author of Anekāntajayapataka-Vrtti-tippanaka, he might have been identical with our Municandrasuri, but we do not have the positive evidence at hand in the matter.
As has been recorded by the author of the MRA, Municandrasūri was a great scholar and a poet.25 Shri M. D. Desai further informs that he was a great debator and a staunch ascetic, and subsist as he did merely on rice-soup (sauvira), he came to be popularly known as "sauvirapāyi'; that he had as his followers five hundred Jaina monks and numerous nuns; that he had toured extensively in Gujarat, Lātadeśa and Nagapura, but in general his head-quarter was at Patan when he deid in the year noted above. 26 It is quite possible that our Municandrasūri was styled “Saiddbāntika" too on the strength of his twenty small works pertaining principally to the principles underlying the practical aspect of Jainistic religious conduct,27
(2) JINACANDRASŪRI :
Although Municandrasūri must have had numerous disciples, the author of the MRA has named only two, viz,, Devācārya, the author of the famous Syād-vada-ratnakara, and Jinacandrasūri; of the two, the first was an outstanding defender of the svetambaras and hence a
22. AMKV, (Hindi) Prastāvanā, p. 7. 23. PRC, p. 173, vs, 71 :
शतकैकादशे साष्टासप्ततौ विक्रमार्कतः । वत्सराणां व्यतिक्रान्ते श्रीमुनिचन्द्रसूरयः ॥ आराधनाविधिश्रेष्ट कृत्वा प्रायोपवेशनम् । शमपीयूषकल्लोलपूताः स्म त्रिदिवं ययुः ॥ ; also PS, p. 153: श्रीयशोभद्रसूरि-श्रीनेमिचन्द्रसूरिपट्टे चत्वारिंशत्तमः श्रीमुनिचन्द्रसूरिः । ... संवत् ११७८ वर्षे
स्वर्गभाक् । 24. JSSI (D), p. 241. 25. MRA, Intro. vss, 40 and 42. 26. JSSI (D). p. 241, 27. Cf. op. cit. for a list of his works,
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