Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

Author(s): R G Bhandarkar
Publisher: Government Central Book Depot

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have two good copies, (Nos. 286 and 287), is a com
; mentary on the second, the Saptapadârthî
and and
Saptapadârthî, and there is a
S commentaries.
commentary on this again by Nrisinka of which we have a small fragment, (No. 750). Another commentary in the collection on Siváditya's manual is by a Jaina named Jinavardhanasûri, (No. 291), and a third entitled Mitabhâshinî by Madhava Sarasvatî is among the manuscripts collected by me in 1879. Jinavardhanasûri Jina vardhangsnis Is represented in the colophon
to have been the successor of date.
Jinarâjasûri, High-priest of the Kharataragachchha; (P., Appendix II.). Jinarâja died in 1461 Sariyat or 1405 A.D., and Jinavardhana occupied the seat vacated by him till 1475 Samvat when he was deposed on account of his having transgressed one of the vows; (Ind. Ant., Vol. XI., p. 249). Jinavardhana appears to have been a zealous student of the Nyâya. Among the palmleaf manuscripts in our collections, No. 28 of 1880-81 which is a copy of Udayana's Tâtparyaparisuddhi is stated at the end to have belonged to Jinavardhanasûri the successor of Jinarâjasûri, and the year there given is 1471 Samvat; (Prof. Kielhorn's Report for 1880-81, p. 19). Siyâditya the author of the Saptapadârthî commented on by Jinavardhana, must thus have flourished before the fifteenth cen
tury. The third manual or Tarkabhâsha and Tackabhâshâ has been comcommentaries.
mented on by Govardhanamiśra, Mâdhavabhatta, and Chinnabhatta. Govardhanamiśra was the son of Balabhadra and his wife Vijayasrî, and had two elder brothers named Padmanabha and Viśvanâtha. He was the pupil of Keśavamiśra, the author of the work on which he has commented; (Q., Appendix II). Of Govardhanamiśra's work we have two copies, (Nos. 282 and
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