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OPERATIONS IN SEARCH OF SANSKRIT MSS.
had two sons, Datta and Subhankara. Mâgha (who tells us himself that he was the son of Dattaka and the grandson of Suprabhadeva) was the son of the one, and Siddha the son of the other (Klatt. loc. cit. from the Prabhavakacharitra).
No. 49 is an old copy, unfortunately, however, not dated, of the
The Mahaviracharitra of Mahârîracharitra of Hemachandra. From Hemachandra.
the colophon it would appear that the manuscript originally included the whole of the Trishashtsalâkapurushacharitra, of which the Mahaviracharitra is the tenth and last parvan. After the colophon comes a prasasti in which the spiritual descent of Hemachandra is traced from Jambû. Jambû, Prabhava, Sayambhava, Yasobhadra, Sambhậta and Bhadrabahu, follow each other in the well established order (see Klatt in Indian Antiquary, XI. p. 246). Sthûlabhadra succeeded Sambhûta. He was the last who knew the fourteen pûrvas. His pupils and successors Mabâgiri and Suhastin knew only ten. Suhastin had an illustrious convert in King Samprati, who set up Jain temples in every town, village and â kâra of this " Ardha Bharata.” Susthita and Supratibuddha succeeded Suhastin. With Susthita originated the Koţika gana. The praśasti here leaps to Vajrasûri (No. 16 with Klatt: Susthita being No. 12). He was the vajra (thunderbolt) of the Vajra Śåkhâ, which arose under him in the glorious Tumbayanapattana. On the occasion of a great famine this sage placed the community on a carpet, which he then raised into the air with his lotus hand, and carried through the sky to Mahậpuri, where food in abundance was to be had. (Compare Klatt: " He extended the Jaina religion southwards in the direction of the Banddhas.") The Vajra sâk hâ ranged itself alongside of the previously existing Uchchapagarika and Mûkhya så khâs. The Chandra gachchha was an offshoot of the Vajra saknha. In it arose
(1) Yaśobhadra. His death on Mount Girnar (“Nemijinendrapâ vitasirasyadrau") is described. After the manner of Jain saints he at the end starved himself to death, fasting for thirteen days, with the additional mortification of refraining from the slightest movement of any of his limbs (“sanlekhanam kļitva” cf. the common “Alikhita iva"). In this way the sage attained to pure knowledge and died. By this exploit he rendered the similar tales told of old sages credible to an unbelieving generation. He was succeeded by
(2) Pradyumna. He was succeeded by (3) Gunasena (Senanin). He was succeeded by
