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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Next, in the Jayākhyasaṁhită, as has been said already we meet with the directions for attaining the Yakşiņīsiddhi. This is very important as it affords further materials for comparison in order to be helpful in determining the age of the work, This very topic of Yakşinīsādhana also appears in the Bhutadāmaratantraż where Sadhanas for Yakşipīs are given along with those of the Bhutinīs, Năginis, Vidyadharis, Kätyāyanīs. Kinnarīs and so forth. In the Bhútaļāmaratantra the number of Yakşiņis is recorgnized as eight and they are named as Surasundari, Manohārini, Kanakamati, Kāmeśvarī, Ratipriyā, Padmini, Nați and Anuragini. When compared with the Bhūtaļāmaratantra the Jayākhyasamhită seems to present an earlier stage of thought inasmuch as though the Yakşipis do appear in the latter, the others, namely, the Bhutinis, Apsarasas, etc. who are closely associated with the Yakşiņīs are completely absent. There is one more reason why the Jayākhyasambita should be earlier. While describing the advantages to be gained through the enchantinent of the Yaksinīs, the Dināras are mentioned as miraculously coming from them in large quantities in the Bhútadãınaratantra, but in the Jayākhya though the advantages are similarly enumerated the Dināras are not mentioned at all. This shows that the Jayākhya is earlier than the Bhůta lämaratantra which has been placed in the beginning of the seventh century. Therefore Jayākhya must be still earlier, sometime at least before the Dīnāras
1. op. cit. p. 294. 2. Bhútadámaratantra ( Hindu ), 11th Patala (Buddhist ), 8th
Kalpa. Both these are unpublished and original Mes are preserved in the Library of the Oriental Institute, Baroda. A paper on the Cult of Bhútadâmara has been contributed before the Patna Session of the Oriental Conference where the two
versions have been compared, and their dates discussed. 3. See remarks in the previous footnote. 4. B. Bhattacharyya : The calt of Bhūtāda mara read before the
Patna Oriental Conference, 1930. For the historicity of docaments mentioning the Dināras, see Bühler: The Laws of Manu, Introduction, pp. xvii; cv, cvii.
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