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this date with the help of the ephemeris, he can do so because given the month, the fortnight, the Tithi and the day of the week, the corresponding year can be calculated. Having at present little time at my disposal, I could not undertake it. I wish some expert would try. : This Ms. contains, along with the text, short Tippaņa-like Sanskrit commentary, which gives just slightly more renderings of the original text than those given in the Avacūrika in the Ms. A. The scribe of this Ms. appears to have very little familiarity with Sanskrit and so he has committed many blunders of a grammatical or orthographic nature in copying the commentary on each stanza.
There are two stanzas at the end of this Țippaņa-like commentary, which give us some inforination regarding its author, etc. The author of this commentary was a Jain monk named Laksmicandra, who was a disciple of Devendrasūri of the Rudrapalliya Gaccha. He has also mentioned the names of his father and mother and his family, which is seldom done by any Jain monk. According to this he belonged to the Prāgvāta family (i. e, the Porwād caste of the Banias). His father's name was Hūliga and mother's Tilakhū. He had composed this commentary in 1465 V.S.*
The second stanza indicates in what manner he prepared this commentary. The stanza is defective and its text appears in places corrupt, so the exact meaning cannot be made out. He says that he has not seen with his eyes any commentary of this poem, nor has he studied this poem before a teacher, nor has he listened to this Šāstra on the earth directly from the roouth of its author (?). But what explanations of this poem he heard from the mouth of the Kşatriya named Gāhada, he wrote them out in the form of
• There & Ms. of the Dharmabhyudayakävya in Jain Bhandars at Pātan
written by the same Lakşmicandra, at the end of which he has given 1446 V. S. 18 the date of copying. There has been given the same stadza which is found in the commentary on the Samdeśarāsaka with slight variation. It is as follows:
श्रीमत्प्राग्वाटवंशांबुधिशशिसदृशो हालिगस्यांगजन्मा पुत्रो मातुस्तिलख्वाः प्रविदितचरणो रुद्रपल्लीयगच्छे । श्रीमद्देवेन्द्रशिष्यः रस-सुख-जल-भूवत्सरे काव्यमेनं लक्ष्मीचन्द्रो लिलेखाखिलगुणनिधयः सूरयः शोधयन्तु ।
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