Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

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

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crossed the Godavarî against the counsel of his aged minister Rudrâditya and invaded the dominions of Tailapa, the founder of the later Châlukya dynasty of the Dekkan. He was defeated and taken prisoner. At first he was well treated by his captor, but when secret intrigues for his release were discovered, Tailapa subjected him to indignities and put him to death. This last fact is mentioned in Tailapa's inscriptions also. Now Tailapa, we know, died in 920 Saka or after 919 years of the era bad elapsed. This corresponds to 998 A.D., wherefore Muñja must have been slain by Tailapa before that year. A Jaina author named Amitagati tells us at the end of his Subhâshitaratnasaidoha, as was first pointed out by Colebrooke, that he wrote or compiled the work in Samyat 1050 or 994 A.D. While Munja was reigning at Dhârâ. (NN., Appendix II.). Muñja therefore must have been put to death by Tailapа between 994 and 998 A.D., or about the year 996. Bhoja was crowned king after him, and since he is said to have reigned for fifty-five years, he must have died about 1051 A.D. Sumatigani was a pupil of Jinapatisûri, the forty
isixth head of the KharataraSumatigani's Lives Cachchha. who died in 1277 of the Yugapradhânas or Jaina Pontill's.
S Samvat or 1221 A.D. His work*
contains an account of the lives of Vardhamâna, Jineśvara, Jinachandra, Abhayadeva, Jinavallabha, and Jinadatta, who were the High-priests of the sect successively. In the account of Vardhamâna that sage is represented to have gone
to the court of Durlabha, the Vardhamana.
Chaulukya king of Anahilapattana, who reigned from 1010 to 1022 A.D. and held
* This manuscript was read and a short abstract of it prepared for me by Mr. Shridhar R. Bhandarkar, M.A. The above is based on that abstract.