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intellect) as stated above. The incident is mentioned in the present work and in Vijaya-Prasasti-Kavya). When Vijayasena Sūri left Akbar's Court, Nandivijaya was kept at the Court in his place.
10. Sanayasundara.
It was from Lahore that Akbar started on bis second expedition to Kāśmir, on Thursday 10th August 1592 A. D. and encamped outside the City, in the garden of Rāja Sri Ramadása. A Court was held there, which was attended by prince Salim, several vassal kings, learned brāhmins and pandits. Jinacandra Sūri, with his pupils, one of whom was Samayasundara, attended the Court on invitation. There Samayasundara read out to the Emperor a work composed by him. It was “Aştalaksi". He explained to the Emperor that there was in it a short sentence consisting of three simple sanskrit words ( nt
) which could be interpreted in eight hundred thousand ways." He and Guņavinaya were invested with the title of Upādhyāya when the title of Yugapradhāna was granted to Jinacandra Sūri by Akbar as stated above.
For Samayasundara see my Gujarāti essay on him read at Bhāvnagar Gujarāti Sāhitya Parisad published in Jaina Sāhitya Samsodhaka Vol. II, Nos. 3 and 4 p. 21 and see also Ananda-Kāvya-Mahodadhi Vol. VIII; and further vide my Short History of Jaina Literature' paras 847 and 86 4.
The above work Aşta-lakṣi alias Anekārtha-Ratna-Manjuşā is printed and published in Seth Devchand L. Jaina Pustakoddhāra Fund Series. No. 81.
14 From Samayasundara's own version in the same book :- 'संवति १६४९ प्रमिते श्रावणशुक्ल १३ दिने संध्यायां कश्मीरदेशविजयमुद्दिश्य श्रीराजश्रीरामदासवाटिकायां कृतप्रथमप्रयाणेन श्रीअकबरपातशाहिना जलालदीनेन अभिजातसाहिजातश्रीसिलेमसुरत्राणसामन्तमण्डलिकराजराजिविराजितसभायां अनेकविधवैयाकरण-तार्किक-विद्वत्तमभट्टसमक्षं अस्मद्गुरुवरान् [युगप्रधान ] खरतर-भट्टारकश्रीजिनचन्द्रसूरीश्वरान् आचार्यश्रीजिनसिंहसूरिप्रमुखकृतमुखसुमुखशिष्यवातसपरिकरान् असमानसन्मानबहुदानपूर्व समाहूयायमष्टलक्षार्थी प्रन्थो मत्पार्थाद् वाचयांचवेऽवक्रेण
चेतसा । ततस्तदर्थश्रवणसमुत्पन्नप्रभूतनूतनप्रमोदातिरेकेण संजातचित्तचमत्कारेण बहुप्रकारेण श्रीसाहिना बहुप्रशंसापूर्व पठतां पाव्यतां सर्वत्र विस्तार्यतां सिद्धिरस्तु' इत्युक्त्वा च खहस्तेन गृहीत्वा एतत् पुस्तकं मम हस्ते दत्त्वा प्रमाणीकृतोऽयं प्रन्थः। अतः सोपयोगित्वात श्रीसाहिमपि समुद्दिश्यार्थमाह-राजा श्री अकब्बरः नोऽस्मभ्यं सौख्यं सुखं ददते प्रजानामिति।
According to 'An Indian Ephemeris' by Pillai S'ravana S'ukla 13 8. Y. 1649 corresponds with Thursday 10th August 1592; while Beveridge in his translation of Akbarnāmā puts dates of July 1592 A, D, for Akbar's expedition & halt at Rām bāri as under: "On 24th (Tir), 4th July 1592 H. M. set off to Kashmir and his first stage was this game garden (of Rām Dās called Rām bāri). On the 27th, 300 little stars fell from west to east. The Indian astronomers represented that if the first stage exhibited such an appearance, they should return and set out again at a chosen hour. The Shāh and the Shāhzadí were obliged to go back ( to Lahore)" Vol. III p. 942. Thereafter "On 12 Amardad, 22nd Juiy 1692, inspite of clouds of rain and the opposition of men, he set out. On the 17th he advanced from Rām bāri". Ibid p. 943. V. Smith correctly places Akbar's start for Kās'mir in August 1592 and that bears ont Samayasundara's date of 10-8-1592 for Akbar's halt at Rambāri.
