Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c31.5

v1.c31.5

A.D.¹ Māṇikyacandra was a Jaina author of Guzerat, who belonged to the Koṭika-gaṇa, Vajra-śākhā, Rāja-gaccha. The concluding verses of his commentary trace his spiritual genealogy to Sīlabhadra, after whom came in succession Bharateśvara, Vairasvāmin (Vera°), Nemicandra and Sāgarendu. Our author states to have been a pupil of Nemicandra, as well as of his successor Sāgarendu, who is identified by Peterson² with the Sāgarendu who wrote out in *saṃvat* 1252(=1196 A.D.) at Paṭṭan the first copy of the *Amamasvāmi-carita*.³ Our Māṇikyacandra seems to be identical with Māṇikyacandra, author of *Pārśvanātha-carita*, which is said to have been completed on the Dewali of *saṃvat* 1276(=1220 A.D.) in Devakūpa (Divbandar) by the sea (v.36). In it the author gives a spiritual genealogy, traced up to Pradyumna Sūri and corresponding exactly to that given in the °*Saṃketa*⁴. Māṇikya also appears to have written a *Nalāyaṇa* or *Kubera-purāṇa*.⁵ Māṇikyacandra, mentioned in Merutuṅga's *Prabandha-cintāmaṇi* as having flourished under Jayasiṃha of Guzerat, seems to be a different person.