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CONTRIBUTIONS TO LITERATURE, ETC. 75 manuscript in his possession makes himl/a yati of Maléyür, Bhațțākalanka being the title of the line of gurus of that place.47
Among the later successors of Akalanka, Prabhācandra stands pre-eminent as the author of Nyāya-kumuda-candrôdaya and Praméya-Kamala-mārtānda. There is also in the Saraswati Bhavana (Bombay) a manuscript entitled Jainêndra-Nyasa, and another called Amôgha-vrtti-Nyāsa, both of which are grammatical works by Prabhācandra, being commentaries on Śākațāyana's grammar.48
Sākațāyana (to be distinguished from his Vedic namesake) was a contemporary of Amoghavarşa I Rāştrakūța. The author called his work Amôghavrtti in honour of the King under whose patronage he evidently wrote it. There are several commentaries on the Amôghavrtti, of which that by Yakşavarma runs into 6,000 ślokas. The extent of the original, though it is not available, is easily conceivable since Yakşavarma's work is only an abridgment of the Mahāvýtti as he calls Sākațāyana's book.49
It was under the Rāştrakūtas that considerable literary activities were carried on by the Jainas. We have already referred to some of the works of this period in our historical survey of the dynasty. We can only take note of the more important ones here. Bhandārkar places the earliest limit of these writers with Vidyānanda and Prabhācandra.50 The latter has already been noticed as the disciple of Akalanka. Vidyānanda is known by his sloka-vārtika and Astosahasri, the latter of which, as already mentioned, is a commentary on the Aptamimāṁsa. Jinasena, in his Adipurāņa refers to him as Pátrakesari, 51 More interesting works of this period are the
47 Rice, op. cit., p. 372. 48 Sri Ailak-Pannālal-Digambara Jaina Saraswati Bhavana, First Addual
Report and List of Books, p. 46; ibid. Third Report, p. 38. 49 Of. Hirālāl, op. cit., p. XXV; Fāthak, J. S'ākatāyana Contemporary
of Amoghavarş& I, Ind. Apt. XLIII, pp. 205-07. 50 Bhandārkar, The Pom. Gaz. I, pp. 407-08. 61 Hirālal, op. cit., pp. xxviii-ix. This identification is questioned by
later writers, See the Jagalkisora in Anekanta,
| SR No. | 011062 |
| Book Title | Jainism and Karnataka Culture |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | S R Sharma |
| Publisher | Karnataka Historical Research Society Dharwar |
| Publication Year | 1940 |
| Total Pages | 263 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 9 MB |