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Some Less known Verses of Siddhasena Divakara
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Tad-uktam ca SiddhasenaDivakarena
. p. 37) Jayasimba Suri, -disciple of Krsparsi, -is a pre-medieval writer who wrote his vivarana some 419 years aotérior to Prabhācandrācarya. There can, then, be absolutely no doubt that what he quotes is genuine Siddha. sepa.
The authenticity of the next two verses is upheld by an authority no less than Yakinīsūnu Haribhadra sūri (active c. A. D. 745-785). In his Avašyaka-vștti (c. A. D. 750) he cites those very verses as from Vadi. mukhya"12. By Vadimukhya', at two other occasions, he also had meant Mallavādi sori (c. A.D. 500-550) and Samantabhadra (c. A.D. 600-650)', the former a Śvetāmbara logician and dialectician (earlier referred to) and the latter his counterpart of the Digambara sect. However, in these latter two cases, in the gloss, he specifically alludes to their names as well. In the case of the third “Vādimukhya", referred to in the above context, Haribhadra offers no such nomenic clarification, and, in this case, by reductio ad absurdum, the "Vadimukbya" has to be a third person, very plausibly Siddhasena Divakara. That it must be so is supported by another reference, in Haribhadra sūri's Prajñāpand-sútra-ţika (pradeśavyakhya), where he quotes a verse by "Vadimukbya"", which is verse 13 in Siddhaseda's Dvätrimśikā 2. That Siddhasena Divākara was the author of the se. aforenoted four exquisite Verses cited in the Prabhavaka-carita, is thus beyond doubt 'established.
The Dharmopadeśamála-vivarana, after the first two verses, quotes the following one and not those two quoted in the Prabhävaka-carita :15
त्वन्मतामृतबामानां सर्वथैकान्तवादिनाम् । ।
आप्ताभिमानदग्धानां प्रे(स्वे)ष्टं दृष्टेन बाध्यते ॥
The stanza, however, is from the Aptamimamså of Samantabhadra as Dr.Nagin Shah has ascertained and communicated to me. Samantadhadra's style is usually somewhat more evolved and involved than the stylo of Siddhasena Divakara,
Hopefully, some day the lost Dvåtrishśikas will come to light from some uncombed area when we possibly can identify the original lodgmont of the earlier verses in Divākara's productions. Till then we may at least cherish these verses as a precious small addition to our Siddhasena pols essions. . There are, of course, a couple of further Sanskrit verses from Siddha. spa which may next be considered. Kogtārya-vādi-gaại (c 7th cent, A,
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