Note on Hemchandras Abhidhanchintamani and Sanskrit Karmavati

Author(s): Nalini Balbir
Publisher: ZZ_Anusandhan

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But mustari-vāsara would be intelligible only to those who are familiar with tājika, i.e. Islamic astrology in Sanskrit, and not to others” (S.R. Sarma). VS 1780: samvat 1780 varṣe Māgha-māse śukletara-pakṣe 10 daśami-karmavāțyām śanau vāsare lipikytam (PrS No. 1148 p. 296; Sthānāngasūtrastabaka). VS 1780: samvat 1780 varșe Phālguna-māse krşņa-pakşe aştami-karmavāțyām suraguru-vāre ... śriSojita-nagare (PrS No. 1154 p. 298; Haimi nāmamālā). VS 1781: samvat sasi-siddha-sāgara-kumudabāmdhava-mite (1781) Aśvayuja-kļşņa-pakse ekādaśî-karmavāțyām ... Vikramapuravare ... (Ahmedabad, L.D., vol. I, No. 622; Kalpasūtra). VS 1783: samagni-nāgadri-candra-pramitābde (1783), Sāņke vasv-abdhi-rasaike pravarttamāne (1648)/ mahā-māngalyaprada-Bāhulaka-māse dhana-trayodaśyām karmavātyām // cāndrivāsare // srimajJesala-peśala-durgge ... (Balbir-ShethTripathi, British Library Cat. No. 747; Matisāra's Sālibhadracaupai). - For Bāhula see above on “VS 1642". Dhanatrayodasi is a festival celebrated on the 13th day of the dark fortnight of Āśvina, “on which money-lenders and others worship money” (F. Kielhorn, “Festal days of the Hindu lunar calendar”, Indian Antiquary 1897, reprinted in Kleine Schriften, Wiesbaden, 1969, p. 866). Known in Gujarati as Dhanteras “Wealth Thirteenth”, it is also part of the Svetāmbara Jaina calendar (cf. J.E. Cort, Jains in the World, Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 164). VS 1785: samvat kusumāyudhāyudha-kailasa-bhūdhara-sirastaţikānta-bhūdhana-gaganāngaņa-tilaka-vāhana-rajanibhūşaņapramite varșe hșsya-vaidusya-sākṣiņi vicakşaņa-mukhyamānaniye Taisye māsi valakṣa-vipaksa-pakse pañcamyām karmavātyām budha-jana-manojña-jña-vāsare, akarkasa-pariņati