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The date assigned to Baribbadrasuri by Dr. S. C. Vidyabhusana is "about 1120 A. D.** This, however, will have to be put a little earlier, in view of the date which has to be assigned to his commentator Pars'vadevagani.
Pars'vadevagani, the author of the Panjikā on Haribhadra Suri's Vrtti, states the date of the composition of his work as follows:
" प्रहरसस्र्युके विक्रमसंवत्सरेऽनुराधायाम् ।
hurrent a careful neganton faqai 1 (721. 9. 9. 1 p. 82)
The symbolical statement of the date contained in the first line has been interpreted as Vikrama Samvat 1189, =" 1133 A. D. by Dr. S. C. Vidyabhūsaņa, and this bas been accepted by Pandit Vidhas'ekhara Bhattcharya. The "Jaina Granthāvali" (published by the Jaina S'vetämbara Conference, Bombay ), however, gives the date as V.S 1169 i, e. 1113 A. D. The differece arises from the difference in the interpretation of the word "@" in the above quoted verse. Does " H "stand for 8 or 6 ? Fortunately We have a test in the details of the month, the fortnight, and the naksatra mentioned in the verse. I referred the question to my learned colleague Pandit Ramayatna Ojha, Head of the Department of Jyanytişa in the Oriental College of the Benares Hindu University, and requested him to apply the test. He found that the details acoorded with the Vikrama year 1169 i. e. 1113 A. D. I From this incidentally we learn that Pārs'vadevagaņi belonged to that part of the country where tho month is commenced with the dark and ended with the bright fortnight i. e. Northern India.
S'ricandra is the author of the “Nyāyapraves'atippana " which Dr. S. C. Vidyabbanana describes as " a supercommentary on the Nyāyapraves'a Vịtti of Haribhadrasûri". In the BỊbattippanikā it is described Fanagalent 9986 og stati " This shows by the way that S'ricandra knows the main work as '7414327,' and not as state as supposed by Dr. Vidyabhagana and Principal Vidhus'ekhara. The work is said to have been composed in V. S. 1168=1112 A. D. This makes it one year older than the Panjika of Pars'vadevagani.
* In Dr. 8.0. Vidyabhayaris H. I. L. p. 808. Bon Nyayipravodla Part II ( Tibetan Text) G. 0. 8. p. 11. He writer for
# *of ATT The 345 ara fat कोभी “प्रहरसन्ट्रेस्तठमे" होना चाहिए । हमने गणित करके देखाभी हे सं. ११६९ मे फा.क. बुधवारको पडती मोर अनुराधा नक्षत्र भी उस दिन रहता है। इससे यह भी निकलता है कि यह अन्धकार उस देश के ये जहां अगादिचान्द्रमासका ही मार था । इनि.
