Samraicca Kaha Vol 01

Author(s): Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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INTRODUCTION.
HARIBHADRA'S AGE. THE death of Haribhadra, the author of the Samaraicoa Kaha, is placed by Jaina tradition, which in this particular can be traged to the beginning of the 13th century A.D., in Vikrama samvat 585 or Vira samvat 1055, corresponding to 629 2.D.'. This date, however, was recognised to be wrong, since Hari. bhadra was acquainted with the philosophy of Dharmakirti whọ flourished about 650 A.D. The discussion at that time turned on the following point. Siddharsi who finished the Upamitibhayaprapancā Kathà on the lat May, 906 A.D., calls, in the Prasasti of that work, Haribhadra his charmabodhakaro guruh Now the question arose whether Haribhadra was actually Siddharyi's teacher of the Sacred Law, or his paramparāguru ; In this investigation I took what even tally turned out the wrong side of the question. Meanwhile the Jainas had been publishing a number of Haribhadra's works which were found to contain many interesting details. But the evidence that finally, settled the question of Haribhadra's age, was not fur- .
1 At the end of ah old MS. in Jerulmer, of Karibhadra's Laghukpetrasamāsavịtti the date of the completion of this work, 's given, in two verses, as, Vikrama 585, Jyeștha su-di. 6, Friday, Pug nakmatra; this corresponds to either Tuesday, 9th May 528 A.D., on Saturday, 28th April 520 A.D. In the first case the nakṣatr# was Punya, in the second Punarvasu. As the woek-day comes out wrong in both cancy, the date must be considered spurious., Tho nak satra carrios loss weight, because for every day of the lunar year the choice generally lies botween thren nakaatrás only which may be ascertained beforehand,
See my edition of the Upamitibhavaprapancā Kathi (Bibl. Ind.) Preface pe viii f. *Le, P. vi. , ,
A full statement of all particulars about Haribhadra's works, their commentaton, and the latters' dates is furnishod by Muni Kalyanevijaya in the preface (granthakaraparicaya) to kis edition of Haribhadra's Dhar. masagrahini, Devendra Lalabhat's Jainapustakoddhara No. 12, Bombay, 1918.