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Authors and Subjects Studied in Rājasthān Vardhamana Sūri (died 1021 A. D.) wrote the safafa498921 HAT." His disciple, Jinēśvara Sūri, the founder of the Kharataragachobha, added to Jain literature the निर्वाणलीलावती, वीरचरित्र and कथाकोष'. Nirvānalīlāvati is no longer available. But we have its summary in Sanskrit by fratargiu.rs
Jinēšvara's disciple, Jinachandra, wrote the Samvegarangasataka, a MB. copy of which exists at Jaisalmēr.” The work appears to have been very popular, for it is referred to in more than one epigraph and many books." His codisciple fare wrote the great *41.76A
At the suggestion of Prasannachandra, a disciple of Navangivpttikära' Abhayadēva, Guņachandra composed in Prakrit a poem called Mahāvīrachariam.76 It has eight prastāvas and its extent is 12,000 slokas. await wrote the gardafta in v. 1168.
Another Kharataragachchha scholar, Vardhamānācbarya, wrote the Prakrit the Adinathacharita in five avasaras. He uses Apabbramga also here and there." His Manoramacharita was composed in v. 1140.78
Purnabhadragani, a disciple of Jinapati Sûri wrote the afagmafia. His van afiat was written at Jaisalmör in v. 1285." Lakshmitilaka. & disciple of the Kharatara Acharya, Jināśvara Sūri, finished his
& afra in v, 1311.80
Then in addition to these works of Kharatare scholars, from Vardhamana to Laksmitilaka, of which not only copies are found in Rajasthan, but which may on other grounds also be expected to have been studied in Rājasthän, there are many others of the period 9001300 A. D.) in the Jain Bhandars of Jaisalmēr, 81 written not by Kharatgras but followers of other gachchhas. Of these some were certainly
71. Catalogue of M88, in Jain Bhandars, Introduction, p. 37. 72. Ibid., p. 50. Kathākosa like faafutajaat is in 19a.
73. Ibid., and the text of the catalogue p. 48 where the 'On' is wrongly ascribed to forat.
74. Ibid, p. 38, Text, p. 21. 75. Ibid. H. 38-9, footnotes. 75A. T930, verse 70. 76. Ibid, p. 45, Text, p. 38. 77. Ibid p. 45, Text p. 42. 78. Ibid. 79 Ibid. p. 49. 80. Ibid. p. 51. 81. Of these some have been noticed above. See the relevant footnotes.
