Risht Samucchaya

Author(s): Durgadevacharya, A S Gopani
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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THE RIŞTASAMUCCAYA on the allied subjects. Durgadeva calls himself the pupil of Samyamadeva, who was the pupil of Samyamasena whose guru was Mādhavacandra. Durgadeva undertook the composition of the RS in pursuance of the directions received from Samyamas deva.
(ü) KUMBHANAGARANAGAKA AND LAKSMĪNIVĀSA: Durgadeva had finished this epitome at Kumbhanagaranaga ruled over by Lakşminivāsa, in a fine temple of śāntinātha, on the eleventh of the bright half of Srāvaņa when the moon was in the constellation 10 called Mūla, in the year 1089.3 My suggestion that Kumbhanagara cannot be anything but Kumher or Kumbher or Kumbheri near Bharatpur has been supported in clear terms by Mm. Dr. G.H. OJHA who further adds that Lakşmīnivāsa referred to in the
text may be an ordinary chieftain and also agrees with me in my is belief that Durgadeva must have written this work in Jaina
Saurasenī Prākrit as Kumher or Kumbher or Kumbheri is near the Śūrasena country where there is every possibility of Sauraseni being used“. Kumbhanagaranaga cannot stand for Kumbhala
garh as the fortress was built after Durgadeva's times'. Nor can zo it be Kumbhalavihāra founded by Kumbho Rāņā in a fort named Macinda". Thus I firmly hold that Kumbhanagara of the RS is the modern Kumher or Kumbher or Kumbheri' near
1 See st. 254 of the text. 2 See st. 255. 3 See sts. 260 and 261.
4 In his letter of 28th, March, 1941 Mm. Dr. G. H. OJHA, writes to me as follows from Ajmer :
"As for the Kumbhanagaranaga, as the book is written in Jaina Sauraseni Prakrit, the name may be identified with Kumbher near Bharatpur as it lies very near the Šūrasena country. As regards the king named Lakşminivāsa, he was probably some petty chief of Kumbhanagaranaga.” 5 The same letter quoted above goes on as under :
"I am definite that it does not stand for Kumbhalagarh for this fort was built by Mahārāṇā Kumbha of. Mowār in 1458 A. D. whereas the book was written in the 11th century A. D."
6 JSSI, para 830.
7 See Sambodhaka, pub. Bhaskar Vaman Bilat, Dhulia, Vol. 12, No. 1; p. 103. In the Notes, p. 94, Vol. 11 is a misprint for Vol. 12, No. 1. This Kumbher is a headquarter of a Tahsil of the same name in the state of Bharatpur which is divided into two districts or Nizāmats, namely, Bharatpur and Dig. The Dig district has got five Tahsils, such as, Dig, Kāman, Kumbher, Nagar and Pahāri. Kumbher is about eleven miles away north-west of