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either from the portion in the beginning or one at the end.
(v) Visesaņavah : This book is a miscellaneous work comprised into nearly 400 Prakrit verscs and is not publiched as yet.
In addition to the above-mentioned five works, some people consider Dhyāna-śataka which has been incorporated by Acarya Maharāja Haribhadra Sūri in his commentary on the Avaśyaka Sūtra, also to be the composition of Jinabhadra Gani Kşamā-śramama. But there are not sufficient evidences to convine us of his authorship of Dhayāna-Sataka. Date
There are no definte means that help us to fix the exact date of Jinabhadra Gani Kşamă-śramaņa. Still, however, the tradition of various Pattāvalis throws considerable light on the problem. I he tradition of the Pațțăvalis written after the sixteenth century (V. S.) tells us that Jinabhabra Gani Ksamasramaņa flourished 1115 years after the Nirvāṇa of śramana Bhagavāna Mahāvîra. This tixes the date somewhere about 645 V. S.
There is another theory which assigns to Jinabnhadragani 500 years earlier than his commentator Maladhāri Hémacandracārya who is said to have flourishec in 1175 V. S. According to this theery also, Jinabhadragani Ksama-sramaņa must have flourished somewhere about 650-675 V. S.
The author of Tapāgaccha Patļāvali places Jinabhadragani ksamā-śramana as the contemporary of Acārya Sriman Haribhadra Suri who is said to have written a commentaary on Dhyāna Sataka. According to this view, Jinabhadra Gani had lived a long life of 104 years, and though Ācārya Haribhadra Súri was senior to him by 60 years, both of thern
* At the end of teis bhāşya the only reference is this:
स. १७२० वर्षे मागशीर्ष शुदि । शुक्रवासरे अद्यहे श्रीपत्तज लि. श्री मद ज्ञातिना काशीदासात्मेजन अंबादत्तेन । शुभं भवतु । शिवमस्तु ।
(Jita Kalpa Sutra, Perface P. 17 )
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