On the Date of Harṣakīrti's Kalyāṇamandirastotraṭīkā

Among the still unpublished works of Harşakırti Suri, the famous Jain polymath who was pontiff of the Nagapuriya Tapagaccha in the late 16th and early 17th centuries of the Christian era¹, is found a commen- tary on Siddhasena Divakara's Kalyanamandirastotra styled Vyakhyālesa, This commentary is said in two relevant handbooks on what grounds we do

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फ़ोगेल हर्षकीर्ति सूरि की अप्रकाशित 'व्याख्यालेश' टीका का काल पुनर्निर्धारित करते हैं, जो सिद्धसेन के कल्याणमन्दिरस्तोत्र पर है। सूचीग्रन्थ संवत् 1668 देते हैं, किन्तु भण्डारकर संस्थान की संवत् 1635 की प्रति इसे पूर्ववर्ती सिद्ध करती है। पुष्पिका तथा पद्यों के आधार पर वे रचना पैंतीस वर्ष पूर्व की मानते हैं। Vogel redates Harsakirti Suri's unpublished Vyakhyalesa on Siddhasena's Kalyanamandirastotra. The handbooks give samvat 1668; a Bhandarkar Institute manuscript copied in samvat 1635 proves it earlier, and Vogel reads that colophon and the pontiff's own verses to place the composition some thirty-five years before the received date.

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