Nirgrantha-1

Author(s): M A Dhaky, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

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Jagadish Chandra Jain
Nirgrantha
scholar, is also mentioned as the author of the Arghakanda, also known as Sastisamvatsara-phala (V. S. 1050 / A. D. 994).
Angavijja (Angavidya): Edited by Muni Punyavijaya in Prakrit Text Society Series, 1957. It is also known as the Yogavidhi (Government Collection of Mss. Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Vol. VII, pt. I, p. 322). A manuscript of the Angavidyā is recorded in the catalogue of the Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute, Jodhpur Collection, pt.I, 1 + 63, p. 296. It is stated here that the author's work is based on the instructions imparted by Nārada:
अंगविद्यां प्रवक्ष्यामि नारदेन च यत्कृतम् । अंगस्पर्शनमात्रेण जायते वा शुभाशुभम् ॥
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Arthaśāstra (Atthasattha), also known as Kautilya or Cāņākya-Kautilya is classified as a popular scripture in the Nandi-Sūtra (42, 193a) along with the Mahābhārata, the Rāmāyana, the Vaišeşika, the Buddha-śāsana, the Kāpila, the Lokāyata, the Patañjaliya, and others. Then the Vasudevahindi of Sanghadāsa gani (45. 25-27) has cited a quotation from this work, saying “particularly, the growing enemy should be destroyed by employing deceit or a weapon.” Then, the Tarangalolā (853-855), based on Pädalipta's Tarangavaikahā, has cited a few Prakrit stanzas from the Atthasattha, saying "a secret is disclosed if it goes to a female messenger; a woman discloses a secret when she ought to have kept it secret." Further, Dronācārya, a contemporary of Abhyadeva, in his commentary of the Ogha-Niryukti (gāthā 418, p. 152), cites from Canākya, saying "it is no fault if one does not evacuate excrement and urine.” Haribhadra sūri in his Dhuttākkhāna, mentions Khandapānās, an author of the Atthasattha, a work that was different from the one refered to in the Niśitha-cūrni. Somadeva sūri (mid 10th century A. D.) composed his Nītivākyāmīta based on the Arthaśāstra of Cāņākya. As Cāņākya has composed his work for the guidance of Candragupta, so did Somadeva for the guidance of King Mahendra and so did Hemacandra his Laghu-Arhannīti for the enlightenment of King Kumārapāla. Haribala has written a commentary on the Nitivākyāmsta. And Neminātha has composed a commentary in Kannada in the 12th or 13th century (preserved in the manuscript form in the Karkal Jain Hostel).
Assasattha (Ašvaśāstra) or the knowledge about horses. Horses were considered an important constituent of the four-fold army. According to the Arthaśāstra (X. iv. 13), “Horses were regarded specially useful for guarding advanced positions, protecting the treasury and commissariat, cutting off the enemy's supply, delivering attacks against the enemy's forces, and pursuing a retreating foe.” Varāhamihira in his Brhatsamhitā (aśva-laksana-66) provides the characteristics of horses. The sage Salihotra is considered a great authority on the subject.
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