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तस्य व्याख्यानमात्रं किमपि विदधता यन्मया पुण्यमासंप्रेत्याहं द्राग् क्रभेयं परमपरिमितां प्रीतिमत्रैव तेन ॥
No more information is available about the life of this great Acarya.
Works
Jinabhadra Gani Kṣamāśramaņa is said to have composed the following works:
(i) Viseṣāvaśyaka Bhāṣya. This welknown work has been ranked as one of the most important and highly esteemed works of Jainism. The author himself wrote a commentary on this Bhasya, in Sanskrit. Jinabhadragani has earned the repulation as a commentator mainly from this work. For, wherever he has been referred to as Bhasyakāra. the refences have been quoted from Viseṣāvasyaka Bhāṣya. But as has been suggested in the Preface to the Jita Kalpa Sutra* it is not improbable if Jinabhadra Gani Kṣamasramaṇa had composed other bhāṣyas as well. Take, for example, the following verse from the Viseṣavaśayaka Bhāṣya
पोग्गल - मोदय-दन्ते फरसमबडसालमंजने चैव ।
श्रीणादियस्स ए ए दिहंता होति नायम्वा ॥ २३५ ॥
In this verse, the examples of poggala ( flesh ), modaya, (sweet-balls), danta (teeth), pharusaga (a potter) and vaḍasāla (the branch of a tree) have not been explained in details by the commentators. Acarya Hémacandra Maladhāri suggestively remarks that 'एतान्युदाहरणानि विशेषतो निसीयाद्रक्सेवानि (These examples should be understood in details from Niseetha).
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Kotyācāryat also leaves the remark unexplained merely by saying ":" (We shall explain in this Niścetha)
* Vide Jita Kalpa Sūtra, Preface, Page 9.
Whose commentary has not been published, but is preserved in the Bhandarkar Research Institute, Poona.
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