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been believed by Shri M. D. Desai 22 and Pandit Mafatlal Zaveri. 22 In fact Shri Vijayasenasüri (and not Vimalasāgara) only inspired him to undertake the work while he was in Cambay. 24 As is usual with the Jain monks, the author of this commentary carried on his work during his sojourn from place to place and completed it in Broach, 25 in V.Sam. 1635 (i.e. about 1579 A.D.). The literary activity of Pannyāsa Padmasāgara extended from 1578 A.D. to 1601 A.D. during which he is known to have composed; (i) Naya - prakāśa - tikā; (ii) Śilaprakāśa; (iii) Dharma - parikṣā; (iv) Jagadguru - kāvya; (v) Uttaradhyana - kathā - sangraha; (vi) Yukti - prakāśa with a commentary; (vii) Pramāņa - prakāśa with a Vștti; (viii) Yasodhara - carita; 26 and the Sthūlibhadra - carita. 27
Even competing, by its extent of nine thousand gramthus, with the size of the TM, this commentary seems to have been commenced nicely. But the aurhor does not carry on his enthusiasm beyond the introductory verses, and on the text proper he skips off many a passage. It is brief and covers, though not word by word, almost all the difficult passages in the text of the TM, and follows the 'Khandānvaya' method of first giving the basic principal part of the sentence and then gradually explaining the adjectives. As regards pointing out the metres and the figures of speech, this commentator is rather not much interested in it; But after all it is a simple Vrtti mainly aiming at explaining difficult passages.
It has not yet been fully published. 28 A photo-copy consisting of 438 photographs (being negative the paper is black while the letters are white) of the full work of 222 foltos, is at present preserved in the personal Bhandara of Muni Shri Punyavijayaji at Ahmedabed. The copy is quite readeble. Another Ms. 29 written on paper 22. JSSI(D), pp, 586 - 587. 23. TM(P), Pt. I, Introduction, p. 29. 24. Cf. Pdms. Vịt. photograph No. 1 : FRAICEITEN: 1 FH
तीर्थपुरे व्याख्यां कुरुते पद्मसागरः ।। ३ ॥ 25. Ibid. photograph No. 438 : at an THANTHICHTEINTHATT: 1 71
वृत्ति भृगुकच्छमध्ये पंचविषट्चन्द्रमितेऽमितेऽब्दे ॥ ६॥ 26. JSSI(D), pp. 586 - 587. 27. TM(P), Pt. I, Intro., p. 30. 23. Its publication, along with Santyācārya's Tippanaka and Vijayalavanyasari's
Parāga, was started in 1940 A.D. by Ishvnrdas Mulchand on behalf of Jaina Grantha Prakashaka Sabha. But somehow it did not proceed beyond the publica.
tion of the first volume covering the portion upto pp. 1-9 of TM(N). 29. Cf. the end of the Colophone : par 3963 a HET HUTT27 33 Harat
शुभं भवतु etc.
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