Operation In Search of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Mumbai Circle 1

Author(s): P Piterson
Publisher: Royal Asiatic Society

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chandra comes next. His conversion of king Kumârapâla is glanced at in the verse :
नृपतिप्रतिबोधिन्या यद्विरा सुधयामराः । जज्ञिरे पशवोपि श्रीहेमसूर्ति महेम तम् ||
"Let us honour that śri-Hemasûri, by the nectar of whose words, of power to enlighten a king, beasts even were raised to a seat among the immortals." Hemachandra is followed in this enumeration by sri-Devananda súri, with regard to whom the statement is made that he wrote and himself explained a grammar called the Siddhasarasvatam Sabdánus á sanam:
श्रीदेवानंदसूरिभ्यो नमस्तेभ्यः प्रकाशितं ।
सिद्धसारस्वताख्यं यैर्निजं शब्दानुशासनं ||
Śri Devanândasûri had a pupil called śri-Kanakaprabha, and he in his turn a pupil called s ri-Pradyumna. He corrected this book. I find the statement that Sântinâtha attained Nirvana, faqreer, at a tîrtha called Kotiśilâ. In the epilogue to this book, Devasûri, the author of the work, is praised as having overthrown the supremacy of Brihaspati :
बार्हस्पत्याधिपत्यस्य पातने प्रथितोद्यमः ।
अपूर्वः कोपि लोके स्मिन् देवसूरिः कृतोदयः ||
And we are told that he was installed by the sûri sri-Madanendu, as that teacher's successor.
This book was written in Samvat 1338-A.D. 1282.
No. 12.-Badrabâhu's
In Klatt's paper already referred to, it is commentary on the Avasyastated that Bhadrabahu of the Prâchikasútra with notes by Tila- nagotra composed the Upasargaharastotra, kacharya. the Kalpasûtra, and Niryuktis on ten śâstras, viz., Avaśyaka, Dasavaikhâlika, &c., He died in 170 V., at the age of 76. The present book preserves for us the substance of this old writer's commentary on the Avasyakasutra, with the comments of a later writer who speaks as modestly of the gap between himself and his subject, as Kâlidâsa himself, but who hopes that his own deficiencies may render him all the more acceptable as a guide to other babes in the faith:
तत्त्वार्थरत्नौघविलोकनार्थे सिद्धांतसौधांतरहस्तदीपाः । निर्युक्तयो येन कृताः कृतार्थस्तनोतु भद्राणि स भद्रबाहुः || तस्यावश्यकनियुक्तिगवीं दुहन् वृत्तिभाजनेर्थपयः । प्रगुणीकरोमि सरसं रसलोलुपलोकतुष्टिकृते ||