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"Sarigrahaniratna, or a summary of the Geography of the world, composed by S'ricandrasuri, pupil of Hemacandrasuri (see above No. 1388 ), pupil of Abhayadevasuri of the Harsapuriya Gaccha. Sâ ricandra composed in Sam. 1232, a Tippana on his Guruâ s Pradesâ avyakhya of Haribhadraâ s Sâ isyahita on Bhadrabahuâ s Avasâ yakaniryukti. See Peterson, Reports, III. p. 14. He also wrote his Munisuvratacarita in Sam. 1193 [acc to Jainagranthavali (Bombay, 1909,) p. 242; this is probably based on the Patan MSS. But the quotation from the work given at Peterson, Reports, V. p. 7, gives the date Sam. 1120, which is however, impossible]. The original text on which Devabhadra has commented, consists of 274 Gathas divided into seven Dvaras or chapters. They are:-(1)à ¤¸à ¥ à ¤°à ¥ à ¤¸à ¥ à ¤ à ¤¿à ¤ 16 Gathas; (2) à ¤¸à ¥ à ¤°à ¥ à ¤¸à ¥ à ¤Âà ¤µà ¤£ 78; (3)à ¤¸à ¥ à ¤°à ¥ à ¤¸à ¥ à ¤ à ¤ à ¤ à ¤¾à ¤¹à ¤£à ¤¾ 6; (4) à ¤¨à ¤¿à ¤°à ¤¯à ¤¦à ¤¾à ¤° 96; (5) à ¤®à ¤£à ¥ à ¤¯à ¤¦à ¤¾à ¤° 18; (6) à ¤¤à ¤¿à ¤°à ¤¿à ¤¯à ¤¦à ¤¾à ¤° 27; (7) à ¤¸à ¤¾à ¤®à ¤¾à ¤¨à ¥ à ¤¯à ¤¦à ¥ à ¤µà ¤¾à ¤° 29; and à ¤ªà ¥ à ¤°à ¤¶à ¤¸à ¥ à ¤¤à ¤¿ 4 [=total 274]. Afterwards, however, several Gathas from various sources, usually from Jinabhadraâ s Sarigrahani on which our text is based, have been interpolated. Thus the total number of Gathas in our MSS. is respectively as followsâ 335; 278; 314; 324; 319; 329: 276; 276 and 335. The largest number of additional Gathas is found in the 2nd chapter. It is 41 in the first MS. Sangrahaniratna is published with Devabhadraâ s commentary (see next number) in the D. L. P. Series, No, 27, Bombay, 1915, and also in Jaina Dharmaprasaraka Sabha Series, No. 42, Bhavnagar." |