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सिद्धसेन दिवाकर और उनका समय
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65. Once we accept these equations, we concede to the clarification they
provide on the principal puzzling point, the date for Kundkundācārya - It can only be better half of the 8th. Cent. A.D. the other enigmas are. by the logic of this new dating resolved. Prof. M.A. Dhaky. "The Date of Kundkundācārya', published in Aspects of Jainology, Vol. III (Pt. Dalsukbhai Malvaniya Felicitation
volume I) P.V. Rescarch Institute, Varanasi, 1991. p.193. 66. The earliest known commentaries on Kundakundācāryas work are
by Amộtacandrācārya who seems to have flourished on well resoned evidence in late ninth and early tenth centry A.D. It seems intriguing even inexplicable as it why on the works of this justly celebrated and for th past thousand years the most venerated Digambra Jaina philosopher saint, -supposed by modern Digambara. Jain writers to ave flourished of the beginning of the Christian (now, 'common') Era, .... no commentries were written for eight or nine centuries that
may have follwed his writings. Ibid, p.188. ६७. 1 देखें-पण्डित नाथूराम प्रेमी 'अमृतचन्द' जैनसाहित्य और इतिहास, बाम्बे,
१९५६ पृष्ठ-३११। (क्रमश:) ii. पण्डित प्रेमी ने बाद में अमृतचन्द्र को ११वीं शताब्दी के उत्तरार्ध एवं १२वीं
शती के पूर्वाद्ध का सिद्ध किया है। द्रष्टव्य- तीर्थंकर महावीर और उनकी
परम्परा, पृष्ठ-४०४। 68. Prof. M.A. Dhaky, The Date of Kundakundācārya, Aspects of
Jainology, Vol. III, pp. 187-88. ६९. हीरालाल जैन, भारतीय संस्कृति में जैन धर्म का योगदान, मध्य प्रदेश शासन
साहित्य परिषद्, भोपाल, १९६२, पृष्ठ ८३। ii. The mention in this character of Kondakundānvaya cannot therefore
push back that anvaya's antiquity to any century prior to the eight. Prof. Dhaky. The Date of Kundakundācārya' Aspects of Jainology.
Vol. III, P.V., p. 190. ७०. सन्मति प्रकरण, प्रस्तावना, ३९, ४३, ६४, ९४।। ७१. ज्ञानबिन्दु प्रकरण, सम्पा०सुखलाल जी संघवी, ज्ञानबिन्दु परिचय, सिंघी जैन
ज्ञानपीठ अहमदाबाद, सं० १९९८, पृष्ठ-६। ७२. श्री सिद्धसेन दिवाकरनो समयनो प्रश्न, पं० सुखलाल जी, भारतीय विद्या,
भारतीय विद्या भवन, बम्बई, पृष्ठ १५२।
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