Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 4

Author(s): Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication

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either from the portion in the beginning or one at the end.
(v) Visesaņavah:--This book is a miscellaneous work comprised into nearly 400 Prakrit verses and is not published as yet.
In al lition to the above-luentioned five works, soine people consider Dhyāna-śataka which has been incorporated by Acarya Mahārāja Harıbhadra Suri in his commentary on the Avasyaka Sūtras, als to be the composition of Jinabhadragaņi Ksama-sra maņı. But there are not sufficient evidences to convince us of his authorship of Dhayān:!-Sataka.
Date
There are no definite mcans that help us to fix the exact late of Jmabhadragani ksawā-śramaņa. Still, however, the tradition of various Pattāvalis throws considerable light on the problem. The trulition of the Pattāvalis written after the sixteenth century (V. S.) tells us that Jinabhabragasi kşamāśramaņa flourished 1115 years after the Nirvāṇa of Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahīvira. This fixes the date somewhere about 645 V. S.
There is another theory which assigns to Jina bhallragani 500 years carlier than his commentator Maladhāri Hemacandrācārya who is said to have flourished in 1175 V. S. according to this theory also, Jipabhadragani Ksamā-śramaņa must have Anurisheit somewhere about 650-675 V. S.
The author of Tapāgaccha Pattāvali places Jinabharlragari ksamā-śramaņa as the contemporary of Ācārya Srivián Haribhadra Sari who is said to have written a commentary on Dhyāna Sataka. According to this view, Jinabhadra Gaņi had lived a long life of 104 years and though Ācārya Haribhadra Sūri was senior to him by 60 or 65 years, both of them : * At the end of this bhāsya the only reference is this:
सं. १७२० वर्षे मार्गशीर्ष शुदि १ शुक्रवासरे अद्यहे श्रीपत्तजे लि. श्री मोढ झातिना काशीदासात्मेजन अंबादत्तेन । शुभं भवतु । शिवमस्तु ।
(Jita Kalpa Satra, Preface P. 17)