Operation In Search of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Mumbai Circle 4

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

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INDEX OF AUTHORS.
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At 3, App. p. 7, v. 1, Paramânanda says that his teacher Abhayadevasûri was the pupil of 'Sântisûri, who was the pupil of Bhadresvarasûri. These then are the same.
Abhayadeva sûri
Pupil of Vijayachandrasûri (Vijayendu), and garu of Devabhadrasûri. He was third in succession from Jinasekhara, (Jainasekhara, Padmachandra, Vijayachandra, Abhayadeva), who is known to have flourished in Samvat 1204. Styled a second Abhayadeva, not inferior to the first. The Rudrapalliya gachchha rose to great eminence under him. Cf. Klatt in Ind. Ant. XI. p. 248. "In Samvat 1204 at Rudrapallî the Rudrapalliyakharataraśâkha was founded by Jinasekharâcharya, this was the second gachchhabheda." 1, p. 93. In Weber, II. p. 1089, it is mentioned that this writer got from the King of Kâsî the title (biruda) of Vâdisinha. He was tlie author of a Jayantavijayakâvya, a copy of which is in this Report's Collection, No. 1248. This was composed in Samvat 1278.
Abhayadeva sûri
A contemporary of Gunâkarasûri, who in Samvat 1426 composed, in Safasvatîpattana, a Bhaktâmarastotrațîkâ. Jacobi's MS. (Klatt, On.). A copy of this commentary has been bought for Government this year. Klatt says that this Abhayadevasûri composed a Tijayapahuttastotra in Samvat
1451.
Abhinanda
Quoted by Kshemendra, in his Suvṛittatilaka, wirere he mentions that Abhinanda loved the anushṭubh metre.
Amarachandra sûri
Twin pupil and successor (with Anandasûri) of Sântisuri, who was the successor of Mahendra in the Nâgendra gachchha. Anandasûri and Amarachandrasûri were styled Vyâghraśiśuka and Sinhaśiśuka respectively by Siddharaja (ascended the throne Samvat 1150). They were succeeded by Haribhadrasûri, Haribhadrasûri by Vijayasenasûri, who was the guru Udayaprabhasûri, author of the Dharmâbhyudayamahâkâvya. 3, App. p. 17.
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