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Dharmasagara's work, particularly his Utsutrakulaka was criticised by Gunavinaya of Kharatara Gaccha in his Utsutrakhandana composed in 1665 V.E.
I should like to mention here a work, Vidhimargaprapa of Jinaprabha Suri of Kharatara Gaccha to prove that Siddhanta Tippana had already lost currency in 1363 V. E. The views of Kharatara Gaccha, of course, are not accepted by Tapagaccha.
So, on documentary evidence of dated works, the loss of Siddhanta Tippana goes back to a period prior to 1363 V. E. followed by the currency of Laukika Tippana. It is likely that the period may go still further back by about two centuries when Purnima Gaccha came into existence, say, in 1159 V. E. Thus it is proved that Siddhanta Tippana lost currency for a period of about 900 years.
Issue No. II
As my findings on Issue No. I are in the negative, no specific answer and argument are necessary on this issue. But it should be noted that even in the Siddhanta Tippana ksaya of tithis occurs as many as 30 times in a Yuga or five years. Of these at least five tithis are parva tithis, and it was expected that Jain Shastras should have given some specific directions on this phenomenon. As there is no such direction in the Shastras, later writers like Umasvati, laid down the principle :
क्षये पूर्वा तिथिः कार्या वृद्धौ कार्या तथोत्तरा । so as to cover the cases of ksaya occurring in the Siddhanta Tippana, and ksaya and vrddhi occurring in the Laukika Tippana. When the Siddhanta Tippana lost currency and its place was taken up by the Laukika Tippana, Umasvati's Rule came to be of universal application. It is accepted as such by all writers of Tapagaccha sect mentioned above.
Issue No. III.
The answer to Issue No. I being in the negative, I have now to consider the question of the Panchanga acceptable and accepted by the Svetambara Murtipujaka Jains. In Issue No. I, reference was made to the existence, at one epoch at any rate in the history of the Jain Community, of two Tippanas, one called Laukika Panchanga for secular use and the other called Siddhanta or Jain Tippana for religious use. It must be admitted that the use of a Panchanga is absolutely necessary for the proper observance of duties enjoined by secular and religious Law. When the Siddhanta Tippana lost currency, its place must have been therefore taken up by the Laukika Tippana. There is a specific mention in a work called Vicharamrtasarasamgraha composed in 1473 V. E. (page 26 of the printed edition ), that Paryusanaparva is to be
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