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Study of Civakacintamani
wojk. In this prasasti it is stated that this text was completed on the 820 Šaka year (A.D. 897) called Lir gala, during the reign of the Rāșțrakuța king Akala arsa (Krşņa II)1 (A.D. 850-915)
The whole book of the Mp. deals with the story of sixty three Jain divine personages. 8 Asart from these sixty three divine personages there are also nine Nāradas, eleven Rudras and twenty four Kāma devas. 3 Jivandhaia is one of these Kamadevas and his story is narrated in the seventy fifth chapter of the Sanskrit Mahāpurana in verses 183-691,
The Jivandhara story narrated in the ninety ninth samdhi of the Apabhramsa Mabāpurāņa of Puşpadanta which was completed in A.D). 965 during the reign Kisna III (A.D. 939-966) of the Rāştrakūța dynasty, + follows the Jivandhara story narrated in the Up. to a great extent. The story in Puşpadanta's Mābāpujāņa (Mp.) is very brief compared to the story in the Up., and it just follows the story of the Up.
From the following verse of the introductory stanzas of the Gc. it is known that the Gc was written by Vadībhasimha :
śripuspasenomuniraiha iti pratito divyo manur mama sada hpdi samnidadhyāt / yacchaktitah prurimūdhamatir jano'pi vadibhasimhamunipungavatam upaiti //
[Let the ascetic known as Puspasena, the divine manu, be in my heart always, by whose greatress even the dull headed one becomes the ascetic Vadıbhasimha (the lion to the opponent elephants).]
In the Kc. there is no mention of its author But, from the strong similarities in style and story, it is obvious that both books, the Cc. and the Kc. are written by the same man. It is most conspicuous in the phraseology, the manner of narration, the names of the characters, diction and the scquence of events. The fact that these two works are written hy Vādībbasimha is also supported by the colophons found at the end of each chapter in both the Gc. and the Kc. Each colophon states that
akāla varşabhüpäle pālayaty akhilamilam/ tasminvidh vastanisseşad viņi vidhrayaso juşi// 31
sakanpakalibhyantaravimšaty adhikäştašatamitabdäntel mangalamaharthakarini pingalanămani samasta janasukhade// 35 sripancamyam budhārdräyuji divasamaje mantrivare budhamse
purvāyām simhalagne dhanusi dharanije saimhikeye tulayam/ sūrye sukre kuli'e cavi ca suragurau niştitam bhavyavaryaih
pripte jyam sarvasaram jagati vijay ate punyam etat purāņam // 36 edited by Pt. Pannala) Jain, Uttarapurānam. 2nd edition, Varanasi, 1968, Prasasti, vv. 31-36, p. 577. 2 Twenty four Tirth ankaras, twelve Cakravartins, nine Nārāyanas, nine l'rati-Nārāyanas and nine
Balabhadras are the sixty three divine personages. 3 Ref. Jign in lorlal Jaini, Outlines of Jainism, 2nd edition, Cambridge, 1940, pp. 125-126. 4 P. L. Vaidya, Introduction to Mahapuräna, Mahāpuräna of Puspadanta, Man.kchand Digambare
Jajna Granthamalā, Bombay, 1937, p. xxxi. 5 Gadyacintamani, edited by Pt. Pannalal Jain, Varanasi, 1968, 1:6, p. 4.
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