Painnay suttai Part 3

Author(s): Punyavijay, Amrutlal Bhojak
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

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INTRODUCTION
story presented in it. This fact itself convinces us of the literary beauty of the ākhyāyikā. akhyāyika. What Dākṣinyänka Uddyotanasûri, Mahakavi Dhanapala etc. have written in praise of this work is highly appealing to our heart. This Pādaliptasûri himself has written a small vrtti on Jyotiskarandaka in the form of Prakrit Tippanaka. This is mentioned by Ac. Malayagiri in his Suryaprajñaptivṛtti (folios 72 and 100) and Jyotiskarandakavṛtti (pp. 52, 121, 237). To come to decision as to how far one can rely on the statement made by Ac. Malayagiri is left to learned scholars. Having exaimned manuscripts wrttten in Jesalmer and Cambay in 15th Cent. V.S., let them decide.
Two sets of information, that we find at the end of Jyotiskarandaka and Jyotiskaraṇḍakavṛtti, are given below respectively.
kalannanasamäso puvvayariehim vannio eso dinakarapannattito sissajaṇahio suhopayo II puvvayariyakayānam karaṇānam jotisammi samayammi / pälittakena inamo raiya gähähiṁ parivāḍi II Jyotiskarandaka Pränta Bhāga kālanṇāṇasamäso puvväyariehim ninio eso I dinakarapannattīto sissajanahio pio... Il puvvayariyakayaya nitisamasamaenam I palittakeṇa inamo raiya gähähiṁ parivāḍī // Il namo arahaṁtānam II
kālanṇānassinamo vitti namena camda[leha] tti / sivanamdivayagehim tu royiga(raiya) jina
devagatihetunam (? ganihetum) //
Il gra 1580 II Jyotiskarandakavṛtti Pränta Bhaga
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From these two sets we gather that the author of Jyotiskarandaka is Pädaliptasûri and that of its vṛtti named Candra[-lekha] is Sivanandi Vācaka. Sivanandi Vācaka. Ac. Malayagiri has considered Padaliptasuri to be the author of this vrtti, in his Suryaprajñaptivṛtti and Jyotiskaraṇḍakavṛtti. It is possible that he had obtained the manuscripts of a different family, wherein the beginning and the ending portions of Jyotiskarandaka and its vṛtti as well were missing. In a manuscript of Jyotiskarandaka, belonging to Jesalmer Palm Leaf Manuscripts Collection, the beginning and the ending portions are not available. Ac. Malayagiri might have obtained an incomplete manuscript belonging to such a family, depending on which he might have composed his vṛtti.
This Ac. Pādaliptasūri has composed Satruñjayakalpa also. Yogi Nagarjuna was his follower. He founded at the foot of Mt. Satruñjaya a town Pädaliptanagara (- Pälitäņā) named after