Udayaprabha Suri

Udaya-prabha Sūri (fl. 1221-43) was a Jain monk and writer from the Vaghela kingdom of present-day India. He was a member of the literary circle of the minister Vastupala, and wrote several Sanskrit-language works.

Udayaprabha Suri
Other namesUdaya-prabha-deva-suri
Occupation(s)Jain monk, Sanskrit writer
Years active1221-1243
EraVaghela period
Notable workDharmabhyudaya, Sukrita Kirti Kallolini
TitleAcharya

Biography

Udaya-prabha was a member of the Nagendra-gaccha, and a pupil of Vijaya-sena (died 1245). His lineage of teachers is as follows: Vijaya-sena, Hari-bhadra, Ananda and Amara-chandra (contemporaries of Jayasimha Siddharaja), Shanti-suri, and Mahendra-prabhu.[1]

He was a member of the literary circle of Vastupala, a minister in the Vaghela kingdom of present-day Gujarat and southern Rajasthan.[1] Vastupala invited distant scholars to teach Udaya-prabha various shastras, which suggests that Udaya-prabha was younger than Vastupala. The minister also organized an expensive function to appoint Udaya-prabha as an acharya.[2]

Jina-bhadra, a disciple of Udaya-prabha, wrote or compiled several prabandha stories that are part of the Prabandhavali[3] and Puratana Prabandha Sangraha.[4] Mallisena, another disciple of Udaya-prabha Syadvada-manjari, a work on Jain philosophy in 1292 CE.[5]

Works

Udayaprabha wrote several poems, prashastis, and commentaries, dated between 1221 and 1243.[1] His works include:

  • Sukrita Kirti Kallolini (IAST: Sukṛta-kīrti-kallolinī, "River of the Glory of Good Deeds"[6]), a panegyric glorifying the deeds of Vastupala and Tejapala. It was composed in 1221 on the occasion of Vastupala's Samgha-yatra' pilgrimage, and inscribed on a slab at Shatrunjaya.[2]
  • Vastupala-stuti ("Praise of Vastupala"), another panegyric glorifying Vastupala.[2]
  • Dharmabhyudaya (or Purana Sangha-pati-charita), a work on Vijaya-sena's teaching of Jainism, written for Vastupala. It includes a number of Jain legends and an account of the history of Shatrunjaya.[7] The work is undated, but it was definitely composed before 1234, the year of a manuscript copied by Vastupala himself. It was probably composed in 1221 on the occasion of Vastupala's pilgrimage.[2]
  • Arambha-siddhi or Pancha-vimarsha, a work on astrology in 412 verses and 5 chapters. This text is known from over 70 manuscripts. There are several commentaries on this text, including some anonymous works, an avachurni by Samaya-ratna Gani, and a varttika by Hema-hamsa Gani (fl. 1458).[1]
  • Upadesha-mala-karnika (IAST: Upadeśa-māla-karṇikā), a commentary on Dharmadasa Gani's Upadesha-mala. The author composed in 1243 at Dhavalakka (modern Dholka), at the suggestion of his teacher Vijaya-sena.[2]
  • A partially lost work, probably titled Shabda-brahmollasa, known from 47 surviving verses preserved on the fragments of a palm-leaf manuscript. The subject matter of the work is not clear from the surviving portion, although the title suggests that it was a treatise on the philosophy of grammar.[5]
  • A 1225 CE 19-verse prashasti of a religious cottage (pausadha-shala) built by Vastupala at Stambha-tirtha.[5]

Udayaprabha-Suri should not be confused with the 12th-century monk Udayaprabha, who was a pupil of Ravi-prabha-suri, and who wrote commentaries on Nemichandra's Pravachana-saroddhara and three Karma-granthas.[2]

References
  1. David Pingree, ed. (1970). Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit Series A. Vol. 1. American Philosophical Society. pp. 57–58.
  2. B.J. Sandesara 1953, p. 71.
  3. Siba Pada Sen, ed. (1988). Sources of the History of India. Institute of Historical Studies. p. 196. OCLC 4720835.
  4. Charlotte Krause (1952). Ancient Jaina hymns. Scindia Oriental Institute. p. 20. OCLC 85851928.
  5. B.J. Sandesara 1953, p. 72.
  6. H. V. Sreenivasa Murthy (1963). A History of Ancient India. Bani Prakash Mandir. p. 30.
  7. A.K. Warder (1972). Indian Kāvya Literature: The Wheel of Time. Vol. 7. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 604. ISBN 9788120820289.

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