A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c6.124

c6.124

1 He was a contemporary of Kumārapāla; for, in some of his works he has said कुमारपालराज्ये and in his grammar he has said: “अरुणत् कुमारपालोऽरातीन.” 2 “कस्यास्येवमुपाङ्गम् ? उच्यते सूत्रकृताङ्गस्य” (p. 1ᵃ). 3 “तृतीयाङ्गस्य स्थाननाम्नो.....जीवाजीवाभिगमनामकमुपाङ्गं पूर्वटीकाकृताऽतिगम्भीरमल्पाक्षरैर्व्याख्यातम्” (p. 1ᵇ). 4 “प्रज्ञापनेति कः शब्दार्थः ?.....इयं च समवायाङ्गस्य चतुर्थाङ्गस्योपाङ्गम्” (p. 2ᵃ and p. 2ᵇ). 5 It seems, nowhere in the com., it is said that it is an Uvaṅga, much less that it is an Uvaṅga of such and such an Aṅga. 6 The com. on this work is in a Ms. form and is not available to me at present. 7 See the ending portion of fn. 3. 8 “उपाङ्गानां च मध्ये प्रथममुपाङ्गं श्रीअभयदेवसूरिभिर्विवृतं, राजप्रश्नीयादीनि षट् श्रीमलयगिरिपादैर्विवृतानि, पत्रोपाङ्गमयी निरयावलिका च श्रीचन्द्र[प्रभ]सूरिभिर्विवृता, तत्र प्रस्तुतोपाङ्गस्य वृत्तिः श्रीमलयगिरि-कृताऽपि सम्प्रति कालदोषेण व्यवच्छिन्ना” 9 According to Gāthāsahasrī composed in Saṃvat 1630, he died in Saṃvat 585. Another tradition which can be traced till the 13th century gives 529 A. D. as the date. But several modern scholars believe that he lived from A. D. 700 to 770 or so. 10 For a Ms. see D. C. J. M. (vol. XVII, pt. I, pp. 203-204).