Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

Author(s): Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

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Jayasimhasūri, for example, composed in c. 915 V.S. (= 858 A.D.) a small text called Dharmopadeśamālā (98 verses), but he also wrote, in 913 V. S. (= 856 A.D.) a commentary on the original Upadeśamála of Dharmadasa Gani.
The Upadeśamālā refers to about seventy stories, the Dharmopadeśamala to about 158 didactic stories. Siddharşi wrote a short commentary called Heyopādeya and another a bigger one, on this text. But the more famous commentary is what on the text is Doghatti-ţikā composed by Ratnaprabhasūri, in A. D. 1181, at Chandravati near Abu. This is published in Sri Ananda-Hema-Jaina-Granthamala (Series no. 6) Bombay (1958) 48.
There are a few Gujarati Balāvabodhas (short annotations) existing on this work, but most of these are still in manuscript form. Some of these are noted by Mohanlal D. Desai.99
Vșddhivijaya, pupil of Satyavijaya of Tapagaccha, composed in V. S. 1723 (= 1666 A.D.) at Surat, one such Bälāvabodha in Gujarati.50
A very richly illustrated manuscript of 210 folios, containing Gujarati-stabaka (and Balāvabodha) of Upadeśamála is recently discovered by Muni śri Punyavijayaji from Devasano Padano Bhandara, Ahmedabad. Muni Sri Punyavijayaji kindly placed the whole manuscript at our disposal for study and reproduction, for which we are very grateful to the Muniji as well as to the enlightened secretaries of the above Bhandāra. This manuscript has a very simple colophon (in red ink) at the end, on folio 210 A, which reads : sa eft 399 TTATOTIEI #uf 11 संवत् १७६५ वर्षे आसु सुदि ५ तिथौ गुरुवासरे। पं० श्रीषीमा विजयग० वाच.
The sentence is left incomplete. It should have been 1971. Between the first and the second lines is written in smaller different handwriting o HR Intü.
Then later in larger handwriting is written in an oblique way
48 For an extensive list of imitations of Upadeśamála and of Sanskrit
and Gujarati comm. of Upadeśa., See intro. to this edition noted
above. 49 Desai, M. D., Jaina Gurjara Kavio (in Gujarati) Vol. III, part 2
(Bombay, 1944). Two manuscripts of this work are in Sri Hamsavijaya collection, Baroda, one is at Gogha. Another manuscript of
this work was copied at Ahmedabad in 1546 V. S. as noted by Desai. 50 Ibid., pp. 1627-28. 51 Ibid., p. 1640. GJ.Y. 27