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ON THE DATE OF HARSAKIRTI'S KALYANAMANDIRASTOTRATIKA
Claus Vogel
Among the still unpublished works of Harsakirti Sarl, the famous Jain polymath who was pontiff of the Nagapuriya Тapigaccha in the late 16th and early 17th centuries of the Christian era, is found a commen. tary on Siddhasena Divakara's Kalyanamandirastotra styled Vyakhyalesa, This commentary is said in two relevant handbooks on what grounds we do not know-to have been written in samvat 1668 (1611/12 A. D.). Velankar was the first to point out that the date of composition given there is probably wrong and should be fixed about 35 years earlier on the strength of a manuscript kept in the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, which was copied in samvat 1635 (1578/79 A. D.) The apposite passage runs as under
इति श्रीकल्याणमंदिरस्तोत्रस्य टीका संपूर्णाः ॥ ॥ संवत् १६३५ वर्षे श्रीमद्देवुसूकपुरप्रवरे । देवनाचार्यवर्य श्रीधर्म्मसुदरगणीना शिष्य श्रीवा ० धम्मेरुगणि । तस्थिष्यप ० बधिरत्नमुनिनालेषि । स्ववाचनायः ॥
"Thus the uk on the Sri Kalyanamandirastotra (Is) complete, It was copied in the year samvat 1635 In the best (of towns) Śrmad Dandusukapura by Pandita Labadharatna Muni, pupil of Sn Vacaka Dharma. meru Gand, the best of (all) illustrious acaryas, for his own reading","
Kapadia', when cataloguing this and other codices of the Kalyana.
1. Cf C Vogel in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlaendischen Gesellschaft, supplement, vol, 2, Wiesbaden, 1974, p 426 sq (An English rendering of the article in point will appear shortly in German Scholars on India, vol. 2, Varanasl.)
2. Jalna Granthaval, Bombay, 1909, p 275, M. D. Desal, Jatn Gurjar Karlo, vol 1, Bombay, 1929, p 470
3. Jinaratnakasa, vol 1, Poona, 1944, p 80.
4. Collection of 1891-95: No. 1252. See H R Kapadia, Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Collections of Manuscripts Deposited at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, vol. 19, pt. 1, Poona, 1957, p. 129.
5. Raad संपूर्णा.
6 More properly Dandakakapura ("Serpent Town"), a synonym of Nagapura, this is modern Nagaur in Rajasthan.
7. Kapadia conjectures, rightly no doubt, Labdhiratna, but the scribe must have had some reason or other for apelling his own name as above.
8. Read स्ववाचनाय
9. Ibid, p 127.
Sambodhi 5. 2-3
