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Ganapala and His Jambucariyam
119 On the reverses of the left hand half of this folio the following broken lines are found :
पफि १ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . मम नाणं ॥
हाइयउरंभि नयरे वासारत्तमि विर[इय एय? 1] पंक्ति २ . . . तीसाए अहियाई गाहग्गेण तु बारससयाइ. ।
एयाई जो निसुणइ सो पावई . . . . . . . ।। पंक्ति ३ संवत् १२०८ वषे अद्येह श्रीमदणहिलपाटके श्रीभीमदेवराज्ये प्रवर्तमाने *
Gunapala's authorship of the Risidattācariyaṁ becomes immediately known from these mutilated lines even of this palm-leaf Manuscript of which the opening and the closing portion especially are in a fragmentary condition as noticed above. References to Virabhadrasuri and Nailagaccha are also found there. In addition to this, there is also a reference to a city named Haiyapura where, during the stay in monsoon, this Risidattācari yam was composed,
This makes this inference possible that the mention of the data of the composition also must have been there in the mutilated portion of the Manuscript because this was almost always the practice with the Jaina writers of this age as will be seen from the fact that Udyotana süri in his Kuvalayamalakaihā, Siddharşi in his Upamitibhavaprapancakatha and Jayasimhasūri in his Dharmopadeśamälāk athasangraha
* On the last folio of this palm-leaf Manurcript, there is a panegyric of ten stanzas in Sanskrit giving details of the family etc. of that man who gave money to have this palmleaf Manuscript of the Risidattacari yam written. This panegyric, which also is in a mutilated condition because half of the right-hand portion of this last folio is in a fragmentary condition, runs as under : पंक्ति १ A . . . . . प्रभोः पान्तु नखेन्दुद्यतयोऽमलाः, प्रणणज्जन्तुसंघात कर्मतापभयात् भृशम् ।१॥ प्राग्वाटवंशमाणिक्य पंक्ति २ A . . . . वणिक् सोलुकानामतस्तस्य पत्नी शीलगुणावृता ॥२॥ तत्पुत्री बस्तिणि म रावणप्रियपत्न्यभूत् दंप . . . . पंक्ति ३ A . . . . . जज्ञेऽपत्ययुग्म मनोहरम् ।।३।। चाचाभिधः सुतः श्रेयान् विद्यते विपुलाशयः । देहच्छायेव वशगा प्रिया त ... . पंक्ति A
. . . . लक्ष्मणी ॥४॥ पुत्रिका मोहिणिर्नाम, तमोऽनुष्ठानतत्वरा । दयादाक्षिण्यदानादिगुणरत्नरलं. कृता ॥ पंक्ति , B अन्येा श्चितयामास, श्रीमती साऽप्यनित्यता । संसारे शाश्वत नास्ति. विना धर्म जिनोदितम् ॥६॥ पंक्ति २ B . . . . समाख्यातः श्रुतचरित्रभदेतः । श्रुतं हि दीपकं प्रायो। वस्तुतत्त्वावलोकने ।।७। बिबं श्री पार्श्वनाथस्य स्व . . . . पक्ति ३नु . . . . विवेकलोचनाका ज्ञात्वा जीर्णोद्धारे महत्फलम् ॥८॥ अस्य च लेखयामास मोहिणि: श्राविकोत्तमा । चरित रिषिदताया: पुस्तकं सुमनोहरम ।।९।। पंक्ति ४ B . . . . श्री नेमिचन्द्रसूरेविनेय . .. .॥१०॥
A Jain lady named Mohini who was the daughter of Rāvani by his wife Bastini belonging to the Pragvăț community of the Jainas had got this copy made at the instructions of Nemicandrasuri in order to inake good use of her money. This is the substance of a'l the ten stanzas comprising the Panegyric. It is also added there that this copy was got made in the year 1288 of the Vikrama era at Apahilpur Patan when Bhimadeva ruled over it.
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