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formation about Mänatunga from the Prabhavakacaritra,¹ a work
composed by the Jain writers Prabhacandra and Pradyumnasūri
about 1250 A.D., both makes him a contemporary of Bāṇa and
Mayūra, and author of the Bhaktāmarastotra, and at the same
time describes him as
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
malaveśvaracaulukyavayarasimhadevamatyaḥ
'councillor of the Caulukya Vayarasimhadeva, Lord of Mālava'.³
Now if Vayarasimha be, as seems likely, the same as Väirisimha I
or II, Paramāra kings of Mālava, who reigned sometime between
825-950 A.D. (Duff, Chronology, p. 300), Manatunga would
have to be placed in the ninth or tenth century. Still other evi-
dence points to the eighth century as the time of Manatunga's
Blütezeit; for example, Weber informs us that in an edition of
'Kalpasūtra translated into Bhasha (Lakhnaw, 1875), p. 96, 3,
wird die Zeit des Mänatunga, Verfassers des bhaktāmarastotra,
auf Vikr. 800 [i. e. 742 A.D.] angegeben.'
With such contradictory evidence, it is next to impossible to
determine the period when Mänatunga wrote and flourished. In
favor of an early date is the evidence of the sthiravalis and the
fact that in some of them Manatunga is named as only the 20th,"
or 23d, hierarch in direct descent from Mahavira, the founder
¹ Cf. Klatt, as cited in note preceding. The pattovali states: fripra-
bhavakacaritre prathamam śrīmanatungacaritram uktam, 'the story of
the illustrious Mänatunga is first narrated in the illustrious Prabhāvaka-
caritra'; cf. Weber (as cited in the second note following), p. 1003.
2 G. Bühler, Ueber das Leben des Jaina Mönches Hemacandra, in Denk-
schriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-
Historische Classe, vol. 37, p. 172, 221, Wien, 1889.
8 So Klatt, in IA, vol. 11, p. 252, no. 20; but Weber, Verzeichniss der
Sanskrit und Prakrit Handschriften zu Berlin, Bd. 2, Abth. 3, S. 1003, No.
20, does not include this passage in his text; compare, however, Weber,
opus cit., p. 932, note 1, where this quotation is ascribed to a paṭṭavah of
the Vrhadgacha sect.
A. Weber, as cited in the note preceding; cf. P. Peterson, Search for
Sanskrit Manuscripts, Fourth Report, introd., Index of Authors, p. 92,
Bombay, 1894.
5 Cf. Klatt, in IA, vol. 11 (1882), p. 247, 252; J. Stevenson, The Kalpa
Satra and Nava Tatva, p. 102, London, 1848; Weber, Verzeichniss der
Sanskrit Handschriften zu Berlin, Bd. 2, Abth. 3, S. 1003, 1034.
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formation about Mänatunga from the Prabhavakacaritra,¹ a work
composed by the Jain writers Prabhacandra and Pradyumnasūri
about 1250 A.D., both makes him a contemporary of Bāṇa and
Mayūra, and author of the Bhaktāmarastotra, and at the same
time describes him as
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
malaveśvaracaulukyavayarasimhadevamatyaḥ
'councillor of the Caulukya Vayarasimhadeva, Lord of Mālava'.³
Now if Vayarasimha be, as seems likely, the same as Väirisimha I
or II, Paramāra kings of Mālava, who reigned sometime between
825-950 A.D. (Duff, Chronology, p. 300), Manatunga would
have to be placed in the ninth or tenth century. Still other evi-
dence points to the eighth century as the time of Manatunga's
Blütezeit; for example, Weber informs us that in an edition of
'Kalpasūtra translated into Bhasha (Lakhnaw, 1875), p. 96, 3,
wird die Zeit des Mänatunga, Verfassers des bhaktāmarastotra,
auf Vikr. 800 [i. e. 742 A.D.] angegeben.'
With such contradictory evidence, it is next to impossible to
determine the period when Mänatunga wrote and flourished. In
favor of an early date is the evidence of the sthiravalis and the
fact that in some of them Manatunga is named as only the 20th,"
or 23d, hierarch in direct descent from Mahavira, the founder
¹ Cf. Klatt, as cited in note preceding. The pattovali states: fripra-
bhavakacaritre prathamam śrīmanatungacaritram uktam, 'the story of
the illustrious Mänatunga is first narrated in the illustrious Prabhāvaka-
caritra'; cf. Weber (as cited in the second note following), p. 1003.
2 G. Bühler, Ueber das Leben des Jaina Mönches Hemacandra, in Denk-
schriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-
Historische Classe, vol. 37, p. 172, 221, Wien, 1889.
8 So Klatt, in IA, vol. 11, p. 252, no. 20; but Weber, Verzeichniss der
Sanskrit und Prakrit Handschriften zu Berlin, Bd. 2, Abth. 3, S. 1003, No.
20, does not include this passage in his text; compare, however, Weber,
opus cit., p. 932, note 1, where this quotation is ascribed to a paṭṭavah of
the Vrhadgacha sect.
A. Weber, as cited in the note preceding; cf. P. Peterson, Search for
Sanskrit Manuscripts, Fourth Report, introd., Index of Authors, p. 92,
Bombay, 1894.
5 Cf. Klatt, in IA, vol. 11 (1882), p. 247, 252; J. Stevenson, The Kalpa
Satra and Nava Tatva, p. 102, London, 1848; Weber, Verzeichniss der
Sanskrit Handschriften zu Berlin, Bd. 2, Abth. 3, S. 1003, 1034.
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