Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

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

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varman received him with great honour and offered him a large sum of money. This he declined to accept, but asked the king to make some endowment to the temples constructed at Chitrakūta. Naravarman died in 1190 Sariyat or 1131 A.D. according to an inscription deciphered by Colebrooke. The installation of Jinavallabha in the place of Abhayadeva took place after he had done all that is related above, He did not long survive this event, having died six months after in the last quarter of the night on the twelfth of the dark half of Kartika in Samvat 1167, i.e. 1111 A.D. He wrote the following works :-(1) Sûkshmârthasiddhậnta, (2) Vichậrasâra, (3) ShadaSîti, (4) Sârcha ataka, a karma grantha, (5) Piņdaviśndali, () Paushadhavidhi, (7) Pratikramaņasâmâchârî, (8) Samghapattaka, (9) Dharmaśikshâ, (10) Dvâdašakulaka, (11) Praśnottarasataka, (12) Sringaraśataka and many other kâvyas, (13) Sarasvatasatasamkhyastuti, and (14) Stotras; (PP., Appendix II.). Several of these exist in the Government collections deposited in this college, while in the present collection there is a stotra written by him. Jinadatta, the author of the work on which SumaJinadaita. tigami comments, succeeded.
He was the son of Bahadadevi and Vâchhika, and was born in Samvat 1132 or 1076 a.). He read his Pañjikâ at the Dharmaśâlâ of Bhavadacharya and was taught all the Siddhântas by Harisiinhâchârya. He was installed in Jinavallabha's place at Chitrakûța by Devabhadrâchârya. On one occasion he went to Ajayameru (Ajmir), where he was well received by Arņo, the king of the country. At the request of the Srâvakas of the place the king granted a site for Jaina temples, and on a second visit Jinadatta laid the foundation stones. He made many converts to Jainism as well as to his particular sect. He wrote the Ganadharasaptati for exorcising a man possessed by a ghost and also a