Indian Antiquary Vol 23

SR No.: 032515
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 412
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 16 MB

Page 179

July, 1894.]
THE SAMACHARI-SATAKAM.
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THE SAMACHARI-SATAKAM OF SAMAYASUNDARA AND PATTAVALIS OF THE ANCHALA-GACHCHHA AND OTHER GACHCHHAS.
BY JOHANNES KLATT. (Revised with Additional by Ernst Leumann.)2
1. The Samachari-gatakam. THE Samachari-yatakam was composed in Samvat dvi-muni shat-prilegarochis 1672
(4. 1. 1616) in the city of Medata by Samayasundara-gani. The author was a pupil of Sakalachandra of the Rihada-gotra, whose preceptor was Jinachandra-sûri, from Samvat 1012 to 1670 sûri of the Brihat-kharntara-gachchha. The work was begun in Siddha-puri (Mülatrannpura) in Sindhu-deśa and was finished three years later in Medata (Sukhakara) under Jinasinha-sûri, from Samvat 1670 to 1674 sûri of the same gaclichha. It contains 5 prakasas and 100 chapters (252 leaves). The date of the MS. is "vidhu-vusu-rasa-sasin" 1681 (A. D). 1625) and it was written in the reign of râula-Kalyanadasa by Thahara, son of Srimalla. The text begins with the sloka :
Sri Viram cha gurum natvå smritvå gachchha-paramparâm
Praśnottara-sata-grantham vakshye sastrinuskratah ! 1. This verse proves thnt the work has also the title of Pragnottara-sata.
A number of the chapters have special names, vir: -11, cvidalngrahanaclhikira. 12, saingnrapha-pramukhamam dvidalatvadhikira. 13, srivakiinin pinakakara-nishedha. 15, sravikâņam ekadaśa-pratima-vahana-nishedhädlikara. 21, játa-mrita kn-sûtaka-pinda-nishedhidhikira. 22, tassa duammassa kevali-pannattassa nishedhadhikara. 36, sâmáyika-vaisaņadhikara. 38, 45-agama-sthapana. 39, jina-pratima-pujadhikara. 40, jina-pratima-sthapanadhikira. 41, jina pintima-pûja-phala. 44, deva-stliter api punyatvadhikara. 45, yogopadhina-vahana. dhikara. 48, půrvacharya-grantha-san mati. 49, śråvakanan mukha-vastrika. 50, dvitiya
1 Chictly derived from the newly acquired Berlin MSS. which I examined in the Autumn of 1893. I have also arranged alphabetically the list of quotations from the samichuri ataka (aco post, p. 170, 1. 4 from tottom to 1. 17+), which Kintt had prepared in the order of the leaves (16, 2b, etc.)
I cnunot publish this paper of my friend, Johannes Klatt, without noting that it is, with the 'Note' attached to it, and published post, p. 183, the last contribution that can come from bis pen. Besides these he has left behind him the Jaina-Onomasticon, a huge con position, for which, I am sorry to say, I have as yet not boen able to do more than to arrange the parts and have them bound into eight stately volumes. Klatt himself was never able to do more towards the publication of this great work than to prepare finally for pross a niple of work, which (prefaced by our common mastor, Prof. Weber) appeared under the title :- Specimen of a literary-bibliographical Jaisa-Onomasticon, by Dr. Johannes Klatt, Leipzig, 1892, printed by O. Harrassowitz.'
In thus taking leave of the eininent Indianistic Chronicler and Bibliographist, we are the more sensible of the irreparable loss caused by his disappearance from Literature, as a year or two more of work would have allowed him to coinplete what has been slowly growing into shape in his study during the past ten years. Meanwhile it is some satisfaction to point to the other results of Klatt's Librarianship and scholarship, and to be able to state that, short as his career was, his unwearied zeal has resulted in work cf capital importance to the Indian Depart
f the Royal Library at Berlin, to Indian Bibliography, and particularly to Jain Studies.
The chronology of his life, presented by way of one of the Pattaralis so happily brought to light by his researches, is as follows:-Johannes Klatt: born 1859 A. D. as the son of the postınaster of Filehno (in the Prussian province of Posen); dikaha (matriculation) at the Borlin University 1868; after four years' study there, he took his Doctor's degree by presenting (seo Bochtlingk's Indische Sprüche, 2nd ed., Part III. Preface) A paper on Chåpakya's Sentences' to the University of Halle; 1873 Volunteer' at the Berlin Royal Library (still earning his living for a couple of years as official stonographist in the Prussian House of Commons), 1880 Custos,' 1888-92 (nominally also 1193) Librarian.'
He contributed papers to the following periodicals: Journal of the German Oriental Society, Vienna Oriental Journal, Indian Antiquary, Transactions of the Royal Academy of Berlin, Centralblatt ftir Bibliothekeresent. For the German Oriental Society he also wrote, in its Yearly Reports for 1880 and 1981, the article Vorderindien' (Upper India), and for the same Society he compiled, with Prof. Ernst Kuhn, tho Oriental Bibliography' from 1993 to 1886 (one volume per annum). The eminent services of Klatt to the Royal Library at Berlin can only be fully appreciated by one who has for some time worked in its rich stores of Indian prints and manuscripts. For the acknowledgment of Klatt's contributions to Prof. Weber's Second Catalogue the reader is referred to the Preface of its Third Part, p. viii.