The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.240

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⁵ Mr. K. B. Pathak would make him live on till A. D. 838-39. For, stamping the Jain *Harivaṁśa* as a work of his youth and the *Ādi-Purāṇa* as a highly-finished composition of much later date, and quoting a work named *Jayadhavalaṭīkā*, which mentions Amōghavarsha I. and Jinasēna and gives the date of its own completion as *‘Saka-Saṁvat* 759 expired, = A. D. 837-38, he says that, from this, “we may safely accept *‘Saka* 760 as the date of the *Ādi-Purāṇa*; for, at this time, Jinasēna must have been “very old, as he wrote his first work, the *Harivaṁśa*, in *‘Saka* 705” (*loc. cit.* pp. 224 to 227). The reasoning, however, on which *‘Saka-Saṁvat* 760 (expired), = A. D. 838-39, is thus taken to be “the date” of the writing of Jinasēna’s portion of the *Ādi-Purāṇa* is not apparent.—The passage containing the date of the *Jayadhavalaṭīkā* is worth quoting in connection with the nomenclature and origin of the *‘Saka* era; it runs— *ēkanna-ṣaṣṭi-samadhika-sapta-śat-ābdēṣu ‘Saka-narēndrasya samatītēṣu*.