Laghu Prabandh Sangraha

SR No.: 009675
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jayant P Thaker
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 309
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Literature, & History
File Size: 6 MB

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in the account of PC wherein a part of the conversation is between Ratnaprabha and Kumuda candra and the rest between Hemacandra and Kumudacandra, the mention of Manikya candra being altogether absent there.
Malaya candra may be identified with Malaya giri, the weliknown contemporary scholar who wrote Sanskrit commentaries on several Jaina canonical works.
Pradyumnasûri may be identified with the pontiff of that name belonging to the Purgatallagaccho; because he was grand-preceptor of Devasuri who wrote a Priti on his Malaśuddhi prakarana or Sthanaka. prakaraṇa, and in the present context he is stated to have arrived at the place of contest and bestowed blessings.
It is not possible, however, to identify Yasodhara who is stated here to have been Jayasimha's Purohita, and the same is the case with his sons Khimadhara and Devadhara who are stated to have afterwards turned out powerful magicians known respectively as Ganay a and Manaya. The character of the magician Gajraja of the Kamarupa country also is of doubtful historicity.
There is a reference in this prabandha to a battle between Jaya. simhadeva and Parimadi or Paramadi. It is stated that the army of Paramaḍi had camped on the bank of the river Varuaasa (mod. Banasa) and that, by the force of the magic powers of these two magician brothers, he and his army flew away. In short, this refers to Jayasimha's victory over a king called Paramarddin. As already remarked during discussions on the first prabandha, this king was most probably Vikramaditya VI of the Western Ca luky a dynasty who ruled at Kalyana from V. S. 1132 (1076 A.D.) to V. S. 1182 (=1126 A.D.) and bore the title of Paramarddin. The Talwara inscription (c. 1135 A.D.) also specifically mentions Jayasimha as the vanquisher of Par amarddin. Sri D. K. Sastri is of the opinion that this victory of Jayasimha over Paramarddin may better be taken to mean that over a feudatory of Jagadekamalla II (V. S. 1194-1206 1138-1150 A.D.) ruling over the teritory of K on ka pa than over Jagadekamalla's grand-father Vikramaditya VI (V. S. 1132-11821076-1126 A.D.)* The present editor, however, does not see any valid reason for shifting the status of Paramarddin from the powerful king Vikramaditya VI to a feudatory of his grand-son, when the former was
Vide GMRI, p. 297.