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Authors and Subjects Studiǝd in Rājasthān
but also by others in Rajasthan, as else-where; without them it would have been well-nigh impossible to understand the real import of these Jain scriptures. Another great scholiast, whose works were studied in Rājasthān, was Malayagiri Sūri. His Pindaniryuktivrtti was copied at Chitrakūta and the Vyavahārasūtratīkā at Simhapuri in Sakambhari, respectively, in the Vikrama years 1289 and 1344.' His other commentaries were Āvasyaka Oghaniryukti, Jīvābhigama, Jyotisakarandaka, Nandīsūtra, Pindaniryukti, Prajñāpanā, Bhagavati, Rājaprašñiya, Vyavahārasūtra, Süryaprajñapti, Visēşāvašyaka, and Brhatkalpasūtrapithikā. Malayagiri was a younger contemporary of Hēmachandra Sūri, the famous spiritual guide of Kumāra pala Chaulukya.
Other writers on Āgamic subjects like Maladhāri Hēmachandra, Droņācharya who revised the works of Abhayadeva, the navangavrtti. kära, Nēmichandra, Yusodēva Sūri ( 1124 A. D. ), whose Päksikasūtravrtti was copied at Aghata in V. 1309.10 Kşemakirti ( 1276 A. D.), Kotyacharya, a copy of whose commentary belonged to Jinavallabha, 11 Döven. dra Sūri ( 13th century ) and Santi Sūri, probably, were also less or more known in Rājastban, specially in the parts that bordered on Gujarāt. Philosophy and Logic
This exegetical work on the Agamas was important. But in an age of religious controversy, where one system had to contend against the other, it was obviously equally necessary to give a systematic presentation of the Jain system, specially its fundamental principles. To our period belongs the credit of having accomplished this work not only with success but great distinction.
Haribhadra-Besides his cominentaries on the Agamas," already referred to, Haribhadra wrote the Anēkāntajayapatākā and Anekāntavādapravēša, in which he not merely expounded the Jain philosophy of
9. Jain-pustaka-prasasti-sangraha, p. 118 and 133. 10. Ibid, p. 121 11. Ibid., p. 1.
12 As supplementary to the work on the Agama texts, Haribhadra had his religious compositions like the Dharmasangrahani, Kretrasamūsatila, Panchavastu, Dharmabindu, Astaka, Sodasalca, Panchasaka, and Sambodhaprakarana, in some of which he not merely expounded Jain principlus but sounded a clarion call for all-sided reform, doctrinal as well as social.
