Vaishali Institute Research Bulletin 2

Author(s): G C Chaudhary
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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JAYASENA: THE AUTHOR OF DHARMARATNĀKARA
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Narendrasena gives a detailed Praśasti at the end of his Siddhantasā ra-sangraha. It closely resembles the concluding section of DR both in contents and succession of teachers, and has in addition, some common verses. The inauguration of the Lada Bagada Sangha is attributed to medārya, the tenth Gapadhara of Mahāvīra. The name of the locality with which he is associated is differently mentioned (Srikhapdillaka-pattana or Sri-pürnatalla). Then there is Dharmasena, a Digambara, who covered his body as it were with the garment of the lustre of his teeth in course of his discourses. What are the adjectives of Dharmasena in one get transferred to Śántişena in the other. The Editor has arranged the lines into verses without taking into account their metrical forms. Then come Śántişena, Gopasena and Bhavasena (described in identical verses), and then Jayasena (obviously the author of DR). On his Patta comes Brahmasena, then Virasena, then Guņa
d then Narendrasena, the author. Again are mentioned Guna. sena, Udayasena and Jayasena of whom Gunasena was possessed of many kalas.
Lately, a good deal of information has been made available about this Lada-Bāgada (Laţa-vargața, also Lăța-Băgața, in Sanskrit) Sangha or Gaccha ? In due course it seems to have connected itself with the Punnāta-gapa, -gaccha or -sangha of which the earlier known authors are Jinasena who composed his Harivamsa in AD. 783 and Harisepa who composed his Kathakośa in A. D. 932-33. Mahasena, the author of the Pradyumnacarita, was also a Lata-vargata. He was a contemporary of Muñjarāja and Sindhuraja, and was honoured by Parpața, the minister of the latter (c. 974-1009 A.D.). This Lada Bagada Sangha is also linked with the Kaştha Sangha; but its connection with the Yapaniya Sangha is not proved, because Punnata and Punnaga cannot be taken to mean the same. The Pațjavalis of the Acāryas belonging to this Sangha give interesting details about their contemporary rulers. One of the earliest Ācāryas of this Sangha, namely Dharmasena, is said to have been a digambara, a naked monk; but some of the later teachers were possibly Bhattāras in succession. Jayasena, the author of DR, belonged to the Lada-Bagada Sangha
198 A.D. Thus he will have to be distin
1. Ed. by Pandit Jinadas P., Phadkule, Sholapur, 19.7. 2. V. P. Johrapurkar: Bhattároka Sampradaya, pp. 248-295, Sholapur, 1958.
Giving reference to the Dubkund Inscription of A. D. 1088, Indian Antiquary XIX, p. 36 and Epi.I.II, pp. 232-40, A. Guerinot includes the L gavāgatagana under Svetambara sects Epigraphic Jaina, Paria, 1908, Intro. p. 60. See Siddhūntasārasangraha, Prasasti, verse No. 3.