Ratna karavatarikadya sloka satarthi

Author(s): Jinmanikyavijay, Bechardas Doshi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Pt. Lalchand's copy is quite legible. But I found it necessary to correct it at places and to add things here and there for the sake of clarity. 1. did all this in Pt. Lalchand's copy. And afterwards I got that copy re copied by Shri Chimanlal Bhojak of L. D. Institute of Indology. The present edition is based on this re-copy. Pt. Lalchandji has used the Dhatuparayana published in Germany, and hence at the places concerned he gives continuous serial numbers. I, unable to get the German edition, have used the Dhatuparayana edited by Dakṣavijayaji, and hence I have given serial numbers gana-wise. In this edition of the Satarthi, under the original verse I have given in the bracket [ the pada-vibhāga of that very verse and then again in the bracket [ I have given the derivation (sadhana) of the pada-vibhagas, intended by the author. of the Satarthi. The extent of the text is equivalent to 1967 verses.
The Author Jinamanikya: The author of the Satarthi, Jinamāņikya is a pupil of Caritraratna. Vijaya Muni, a pupil of Jinamaņikya, has written a prasasti containing 16 verses. Therein he has given the appropriate geneological account In the beginning he refers to the Candragaccha and starts the list from Somasundara. He attributes the epithets vacakādhisa' and 'vācakendra' to Caritraratna and and Jinamanikya respectively. The colophon written by Jinamanikya himself contains the following information: the pupil of Somasundara is Jayacandrasüri, the pupil of Jay acandrasuri in turn is vacakacakravarti Caritraratnagani and the pupil of Caritraratna again is Jinamanikya. Vijayamuni expressly states that he has written the prasasti in 1539 V.S. This means that suggest that Jinamanikya belongs to this period. Or, it may even Jinamanikya finished the work in 1539 V. S. In view of the author's erudition and wide reading we may surmise that he wrote some other works as well. But we have not yet come across another work from his pen.
Title Satarthi: The Satarthi is a commentary on the benedictory stanza of the Ratnakarāvatārika written by Ratnaprabhasuri (a pupil of Vadi Devasuri). The stanza contains a prayer to Lord Mahavira: May the lamps in the form of the nails of the Lord destroy the moths in the form of the obstructions lying in the way of composing the great work, the Ratnakarävatärikä. A literary work containing a hundred stanzas or so is called sataka. Here in the present work the author has brought out more than a hundred meanings of one single verse. Hence the title of the work, Satarthi is quite approprite. The variety of
ings is note-worthy. At one place the author has even shown that the verse describes the Siddhabemacand ravyakarana. Regarding this grammar he remarks that but for its study it would have been impossible for him to discover the numerous meanings hidden in one single verse. This