Mahavira and his Teaching

Author(s): C C Shah, Rishabhdas Ranka, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Bhagwan Mahavir 2500th Nirvan Mahotsava Samiti

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V. V. MIRASHI
wrote his work in the Jaina vasatz Tribhuvanatılaka presided over by the Jaina Muni Bālacandra Rāddhānta of Kollāpura. He had the patronage of Lakşmaņa, the Karanāgranī (the Chief of the Secretariat) of the Silāhāra king Vijayāditya. In this poem Karņapārya gives much historical information about his patron and also the latter's Suzerain Vijayāditya.
The other Jaina author who flourished in this period was Somadeva, the author of the Sabdārņavacandrikā, a commentary on the Jaina vyākarana Sabdārnava, a later recension of the original Jainendra Vyākaraña. He completed his work at Ājurikā (modern Ājare in the Kolhapur District) in the Jinālaya called Tribhuvanatilaka built by the Silāhāra king Gandarāditya, in Saka 1127 (A.D. 1205).2 He flourished in the reign of the last Silāhāra king Bhoja II, whom he glorifies at the end of his work. Somadeva's commentary is called Laghu-vřittı, to distinguish it from another larger commentary called Mahāvřittı composed by Abhayanandí.
I owe this information to Dr. A. N. Upadhye, who has sent me a summary of the relevant information in the Nemináthapurāna. This temple Tribhuvanatılaka was dedicated to the Tırthankara Candraprabha. Balacandra's colleague Subhacandra was a disciple of the aforementioned Māghanandt. See Ep. Carn., Vol II, Intro. p. 61. See श्रीमच्छिलाहारकुलकमलमार्तण्डतेज पुञ्जराजाधिराजपरमेश्वरपरमभट्टारकश्रीवीरभोजदेवविजयराज्ये शकवकसहस्रकशतसप्तविंशति ११२७ तम क्रोधनसंवत्सरे . . . श्रीमत्सोमदेवमुनीश्वरेण विरचितेयं शब्दार्णवचद्रिका नाम वृत्तिः । (Sabdārņavacandrika, ed. by Srilal Jain, p. 221).