________________ xxix allowing a difference of atleast one and a half year between the ages of the elder brother and the younger one. After that they were initiated by Vardhamanasuri, who is said to have further educated them in the Jaina lores, before consecrating them as 'Suri'. This must have taken atleast a decade or more. Then, they went to Patan, and after that Buddhisagarasuri completed his work of composing a grammar in Jalore, in 1023 A. D. At this time, as per our rough calculation as chalked out above, Buddhisagarasuri must have attained to the age of about thirty-five years or more. The year of his birth would thus fall in the eightys of the 10th century A. D. This period of Buddhisagara's as also of Jinesvara's life between 981 to 1025 A. D., coincides with those of their contemporaries like the Paramara King Bhojaraja, the Solanki Kings Camundaraja, Vallabharaja, Durlabharaja and Bhimadeva I of Gujarat, as also of poets like Dhanapala in Dhara and Somesvara in Patan. . . 5.8. Although the two brothers and co-disciples, were very sharp and equally learned both in the Brahmanic and Jainistic lores, Buddhisagarasuri is so far known to be the author of only one work, viz., the Pancagranthi Buddhisagara Vyakarana. There is no reference to any other of his works either in his own work or in those of his contemporaries and successors. On the other hand, his elder brother Jinesvarasuri is recorded to have been the author of about seven works, viz., Sanskrit commentary on the Astakas of Haribhadrasuri, Pancalingi-prakarana, Chhatthanapagarana, Viracarita, (Nirvana-)lilavati-katha. Kahakosapagarana, and Prama-laksma with an autocommentary112 6. The Genesis of the Pancagranthi Buddhisagara Vyakarana (PGBV), and Apparatus Criticus .. 6.1. Jinesvarasuri has specifically alluded to Buddhisagara's grammar as "Sabda-laksma' and his own work on Nyaya as 'Pramalaksma', and that the former was a Vyakarana composed in metrical verses. He has further revealed the circumstances that inspired them both to compose their respective works. Jinesvarasuri states at the end of his Pramalaksma that in his days there were critics who taunted them (i. e. the Svetambara Jains) that they did not have to their credit a single work on Nyaya nor on Grammar, that they have to depend upon the works of others, i. e. the Buddhists, the Digambaras, and etc., which consequently proved that they had originated in Valabhi only recently, about six hundred years after Mahavira, and hence being not authentic Jainas, their way cannot lead to liberation (moksa).113 There seems
