Who is Author of Pancasutra Cirantanacarya or Yakinisunu Haribhadra

Author(s): Shilchandrasuri
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probably may be the author of the Pancasūtra. Inspite of this sensing, in the absence of definite evidence, Munivara Jambūvijaya did not commit to any positive statement but conceded to the tradition, and prefixed the title of the work with the phrase
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It should, however, be clear that, as against this established tradition and the opinions of the aforenoted scholars, the author of the Pancasūtra is definitely Haribhadra sūri himself, indeed to the total exclusion of any other more ancient author. To corroborate my statement, I shall produce evidence searched out by critically examining some internal and external aspects of the text of the Pancasūtra.
1. There are three significant sentences at the end of the commentary of the Pancasūtra : 554145145 HHHH ID 4944FCT HAAT II HR STYLE
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Among these, the third sentence deserves special consideration. It comes from the pen of the commentator and therefore implicitly written to mean समाप्तं पञ्चसूत्रकं व्याख्यानत: Had the commentator and the author of the Pancasūtra been different, the phrase in question, ought to have been in the form समाप्ता पञ्चसूत्रकवृत्तिः', while here it is समाप्तं पञ्चसूत्रकं व्याख्यानतोऽपि' and the last word of the phrase, 314, holds a suggestive significace. The term 379 implies that the Pancasūtra has been completed in the sense of "together with the commentary." If af9 is deleted from this sentence, it would mean that the Pañcasūtra is completed 'in the form of commentary.' The addition of only one word 'af' changed the entire contextual meaning. This would then suggest that, had the commentator and the author of the Sūtra been different individuals, such a phrasing would never have been possible. Now, who the commentator was, is of course quite certain. And, therefore, in light of the aforenoted phrasing, if we regard him as the author also of the Sūtra, it would be thoroughly compatible.
Predictably, some scholar may say: 'At the end of the original text, the author of the text has employed the sentence 'Haia daging to indicate the completion of the original text. In the same way, in the continuation of that sentence, the commentator has employed this sentence to indicate the completion of the commentary and, therefore, it is not proper to connect the latter with the original text and hence to its unknown author.' By way of response to this objection, it may be said : If the argument referred to in