Varahamihira and Bhadrabahu

Author(s): Ajay Mitra Shastri
Publisher: Z_Anandrushi_Abhinandan_Granth_012013.pdf

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61 For some such defects, see Gopani, op. cit., introduction, pp. 19-20. 61a Cf. Brahat-samhita, xxxiii. 4,8 and Bhadrabahu-samhita, ii. 8-9; Brahat
samhita, xxxiii. 9-10, 12, 15-16, 18-19 and Bhadrabahu-samhita, iii. 5, 9, 16, 18-19. For a detailed comparison between the two works, see Gopani (editor), Bhadrabahu-samhita, introduction, pp. 6-19, 22-32. As pointed out above, ch. xxvii is found only in Nemichandra Shastri's edition. Nemichandra Shastri's view that the first twenty-five, particularly fifteen, chapters, were probably composed earlier than Varahāmihira (introduction, pp. 55-56) is contradicted by his own statement that the work may have been compiled in the 8th-9th century A. D. (Ibid., p. 55). As pointed out by him, the mention of Durga's work on the ristas in Bhadrabahusamhita, Parisistädhāyaya, verse 10, clearly shows that at least this chapter
is later than 1032 A. D. (ibid., p. 54). 64 See the puspika on p. 70 of Gopani's edition. 64a Ibid., Jinavijaya's foreword, pp. 3-4. 65 Ibid., author's introduction, p. 6. 66 Ibid., p. 20. 67 Nemittio (naimittika) is known to have been employed as one of the syno
nyms used for Bhadrabāhu. See Punyavijaya, op. cit., p. 15, fn. 3. Such are, for example the works attributed to Brahma, Vasistha, Surya, Maya, Garga, Kaśyapa, etc. Similar works exist in the field of Dharma
śāstra, Āyurveda and Silpaśāstra also. 69 As an analogy may be mentioned the fact that as works supposed to have
been composed by the ganadharas were regarded as more authoritative than those composed by others, in later times the tendency to attribute even late works to them came into existence. Thus, some of the Chedasūtras and even some Purānas came to be ascribed to the gunadharas. Vide Dalsukh Malwania, ganadhara vada ki Prasta vana, pp. 8-12; Nisihatha
Eka Adhayayana. pp. 18-20. 70 This verse is found only in Shastri's edition. The opening verse of ch.
xxvi also pays obeisance to Mahävira. 71 According to xx. 1, the movement of Rāhu dealt with in ch. xx is also
basad on teachings of the Nirgranthas well-versed in the twelve Angas. Likewise, xiii. 428 (Shastri's edition) proclaims that the nimittas dealt
with in the chapter are actually those spoken by the Jina (Jinu-bhasita). 72 Occasionally we find the use of the word Nirgrantha which is evidently an
error for Nairgrantha. 73 Also Cf. xiv, 182; xxi. 58; xxiii. 58; xxiv. 43. 74 Na Vedā n-āpi c-angani na vidyāśca prthak 'prthak Prasādhyanti tāni ==
arthān nimittam yat subhāsitam xiii. 38.
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