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S’ilopade'samala is a course of instructions in Prakrit with illustrations, on the quality of S'ila by Jayakirti, pupil of Jayasinha. Nothing is known about the author. The commentary is by Somatilaka ( alias Vidyatilaka ), pupil of Sanghatilakasuri of the Rudrapalliya Gaccha. It was composed in Sam. 1394,- Sanghatilaka, the author’s Guru, wrote his Vrtti on Samyaktvasaptati in Sam. 1422; see Peterson, Reports, 1. p.92ff'. Also see above No. 1600. Our author had composed a Virakalpa in Sam. 1389; see Peterson,Reports, IV. p. 99, lines 10ff.Our MS. does not contain the Pras'asti in 14 stanzas, for which see Weber, II. p. 1088ff. In it the date of the work is given in the words 'Yuganidhisaravau’ which seem to have puzzled Weber; see p. 1089, f. n. 4. But I find a similar expression in a Pras’asti to Yas'asvatsagara’s Saptapadarthi. This was composed in S'ailaa’ugasabhupabde i. e. 1757 (sabhupa=bhupa+1 i. e. 16+1==17.) Yas’asvatsagara lived in the middle of the 18th century of the Vikrama Era (Pras’astis; see above under No. 1443-44. );Similarly ‘saravan' means ravi (12 )+1 I. e. 13;thus ‘Yuganidhisaravan’ means 1394.S'ilopades’amala with Tarangini is published by Hiralal Hansaraj, Jamnagar, 1909. For quotations, see Weber, II. p. 1085ff. |