Operation In Search of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Mumbai Circle 1

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

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OPERATIONS IN SEARCH OF SANSKRIT MSS.
living creature, to speak no falsehood, to rob no man of his goods, to keep her virginity, to know nothing as her own. Thereafter she became the servant,-the bee that hovered round the lotus feet-of the sisters Jagasriḥ, Udayaśrîḥ, and Śrichâritraśril, and caused this book to be written and presented to the teacher who had initiated her.*
The spiritual genealogy of śrî-Mânatungasûri, the immediate predecessor of the recipient of the book, is, in the lines immediately preceding, carried up to śri-M áhadeva of the house of Chandra. In his line rose prabhu Mána tu ngagana bhrit, in his Buddhiságara guru, in his Pradyumnasûri. Pradyumnasûri had a pupil Deva chandragana bhrit, known far and wide as the leader of the gachchha, a lord among the wise (munisvara). Devachandra had two chief pupils; the first śriMánadeva, the other sri-Purna chandra. The Mânatungasûriguru, who was the preceptor of our Pradyumnasûri, sat in the seat of śrî-Mânadeva. The writing of the book was completed on Sunday the eighth day of the light half of the mouth Kârtika, in Samvat 1292.
In his "India: What can It teach us?" p. 336, Max Müller refers to Bhao Daji's statement to the effect that Jain records mention Siddhasenasûri, a learned Jain priest, as the spiritual adviser of Vikramâditya. Professor Jacobi, it is added, states in his Kalpasûtra Pref., p. 14, that Siddhasena is a Jain author, who is said to have made the Samvat era for king Vikramaditya.
No. 41-Siddhasenadivakara's commentary on the Pravachanasâroddhara of Nemichandra.
My shastri recognised the present workt as, of two commentaries on Nemichandra's Pravachanasâroddhâra, that attributed to Siddha sena divákara; and his story with regard to this writer is as follows. Divâkara was a Brahmin proud of his learning, who was conquered in argument by the Jain Vriddhavâdin, and in pursuance of an engagement he had given, became thereupon the convert and pupil of his opponent, taking the name Siddhasena in addition to his own. For the sin of having presumptuously thought to turn
I am told that at the present day women in the Jain community who desire to abandon the world never have the vows administered to them by men, but by those of their own sex, who are already religious recluses. + Compare No. 149.