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MAHAPURANA
समाप्ताः ॥ समस्तसंदेहहरं मनोहरं प्रकृष्टपुष्यं प्रभवं जिनेश्वरम् । कृतं पुराणे प्रथमे सुटिप्पणं सुखावबोषं निखिलार्यदर्पणम् ॥ इति श्रीप्रभा चन्द्रविरचितमादिपुराणटिप्पणकं पंचासर लोकहीणं
सहश्रद्वयपरिमाणं
परिसमाप्ता ॥ शुभं भवतु ॥
I also examined a Ms. of Prabhäcandra's Tippapa on the Uttarpurāņa which I obtained, through the kindness of Professor Hiralal Jain, from Master Motilal Sanghi of Jaipore. This Ms. measures 12 " x 52", has 57 leaves with 13 lines to a page and about 31 letters to a line It begins:- ओं नमः सिद्धेभ्यः ॥ बंभहो परमात्मनः । It ends :-श्रीविक्रमादित्यसंवत्सरे वर्षाणामशीत्यधिकसहस्रे महापुराणविषमपदविवरणं सागरसेनसद्धान्तान् परिज्ञाय मूलटिप्पणकां चालोक्य कृतमिदं समुच्चयटिप्पणं अज्ञपातभीतेन श्रीमदुबला ....रगणश्रीसंघाचार्यसत्कविशिष्येण श्रीचन्द्रमुनिना निजदोर्दण्डाभिभूतरिपुराज्यविजयिनः श्रीभोजदेवस्य ॥ १०२ ॥ इति उत्तरपुराणटिप्पणके प्रभाचन्द्राचार्यविरचितं समाप्तम् || अथ संवत्सरेस्मिन् श्रीनृपविक्रमादिव्यगताब्दः संवत् १५७५ वर्षे भावासुदि । बुद्धदिने । कुरुजांगलदेसे सुलितानसिकंदरपुत्र मुलितानवाहिमु राज्यप्रवर्तमाने श्रीकाष्ठासंघे मथुरान्वये पुष्करगणे । भट्टारक श्रीगुणभद्रसूरिदेवाः । तदाम्नाये जैसवाल्लु चौ. टोडरमल्लु । इदं उत्तरपुराणटीका लिखापितं । सुभं भवतु || मांगल्यं ददाति लेखकपाठकयोः || This Ms. is dated Samvat 1575, i. e. 1578 A. D.
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On examining the colophon of the author of the Tippapa we learn some very important and interesting particulars about the manner of its composition, We learn that the Tippapa was composed in the year 1080 of the Vikrama. era, ie., 1023 A. D., i, e., within sixty years of the completion of the Mahapurana by Puspadanta; we also learn that king Bhoja of Dhara was then ruling in Malva; that Prabhacandra consulted the works of Sagarasena for his Tippapa; that he also consulted the orginal Tippana, probably of Puspadanta himself ( मूलटिप्पणको चालोक्य), and prepared a collected Tippapa ( समुच्चयटिप्पणं ) on the Mahapurapa, embodying the original Tippapa. An author's writing a Tippana on his own work may appear somewhat strange, but it is not altogether impossible; for I had an occasion to examine Mss, written by the authors of the 18th century in their own hand bearing also a gloss in their own hand, and I feel certain that these authors must have borrowed the mentality of writing a gloss on their own works from their forefathers. I therefore think that Puspadanta must have written a short gloss on the difficult words of his work; this gloss must have been amplified by Prabhäcandra, and that the process of amplification must have continued still further down. The gloss found in Mss. of our text is not identical with the Tippapa of Prabhãcandra, but is one which is either abriged or amplified.
Professor Hiralal Jain, in his Introduction (LXIII-LXIV) to the Nayakumaracariu refers to the colophon of a Ms, of the Tippana of Prabha candra which he came across, and says that Prabhacandra lived in the reign of Jayasimhadeva of Dhara (circa 1055 A. D.) But in view of the express men;
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