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INTRODUCTION
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kirti) together in one stanza. In the colophons' of these Sandhis Svayambhū alone is mentioned; Tribhuvana Svayambhū is not included. Lastly Sandhis 107-112 contain', somewhere in the body of the last Kadavaka, in the Ghattā of the last Kadavaka or in the colophon-in one or several of these places--the namamudrāsor names of all the three: Svayambhū, Tribhuvana Svayambhū and Yaśaḥkirti. These facts suggest that Tribhuvana Svayambhu and Yaśahkirti also had their hands in the composition of Sandhis 100-112. This is made clear by the colophons of Sandhis 100-104, 107-112 and by the colophon of the whole work". Tribhuvana Svayambhū* and Yaśahkīrti' both praise the effort of 'rescuing' the incomplete or partly lost literary works of others as a magnanimous effort. In the colophon after the 112. Sandhi the following information is given : This well-known Bhārata-puräna containing Harivaṁsa and the life history of Nemi was composed in the Paddhadiā metre by Svayambhū. Whatever gap (sunnam) was left in his work was filled up after the poet's death by his son Tribhuvana Svayambhū. Whatever was left out even after Tribhuvana's supplementation was "rescued' (uddhariu) i.e. made good by Yaśaḥkirti in accordance with the tradition of the Harivamsa and at the instance of his Guru Sri-Gunakirti. At the invitation (?) of Sarahasena (?) Śreşthi, Yasahkirti came to Kumara-nayari (Kumāra-nagari) and recited (this Purāņa) before the Srāvakas in the Paniyāra Jain temple near Gopagiri (Gwalior).
The requisite information regarding this Yaśaḥkirti can be gathered from the beginning portions and colophons of his two works'. Yaśaḥkirti Bhattāraka belonged to the Kasthā Samgha, Mathura Anvaya and Puskara Gana. He to the Kāşthā Samgha, Māthura Anvaya and Puşkara Gaņa. He was a pontiff at Gwalior. He flourished in the first half of the 15th century during the reign of the Tomara king Kirtisimha. His successors were Malayakirti and Guņabhadra. Pandita Raidhu, who composed numerous Apabhramsa works like Padmapurāna (or Balabhadrapurāņa), Nemipurāna, Pārsvacarita, Vardhamānacarita, Dhanakumaracarita, etc. was a contemporary and a co-disciple of Yaśahkirti. Mss. of two Apabhramsa works of Yaśahkirti are known to exist. The Pandavapurāna', a fairly extensive work in 34 sargas was composed by him in 1440 A.D. for a layman called Hemarāja, while the Candappahacariu in 11 Sandhis was written at the request of a pious Jain called Siddhapāla.
Now two questions arise. First, what were the contributions
(1) Appendix I, st. 70, 72. Premi, 1942, 379 is not correct when he says that all
the Sandhis from 100-112 mention Tribhuvana in their colophons'. (2) Appendix I, st. 73-88. Premi and Jain again do not include here the 107.
Sandhi because they missed the namamudrã that occurs in the 2. line before
the Ghatta of the last Kadavaka. (3) Appendix I, passage No. 87, lines 6-20. (4) Appendix I, st. 68, 84. (5) Appendix I, st. 81. (6) This colophon is considered below. 17 Kaslival, 1950, 98-99, 122-127; Premi, 1942, 380, footnote 6. (8) Kaslival, 1950, 105-116. (9) iya Pāndupurane siri Gunakitti-sisu-muni-Jasakitla viraiya(e) stihu-Vitha.
putta-Hemarāja-nāmankie caütisamo saggo samatto iti Pandavapuranam samāptam!
Kaslival, 1950, 125. (10) vikkama rāyaho vavagaya(e) kalae mahi-sayara-gaha-rasa-ankälael
Kaslival, 1950, 125.
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