Udayaprabha Suri Explained

Udayaprabha Suri
Other Names:Udaya-prabha-deva-suri
Occupation:Jain monk, Sanskrit writer
Religion:Jainism
Years Active:1221-1243
Era:Vaghela period
Notable Works:Dharmabhyudaya, Sukrita Kirti Kallolini
Acharya

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.

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.

Jina-bhadra, a disciple of Udaya-prabha, wrote or compiled several prabandha stories that are part of the Prabandhavali[2] and Puratana Prabandha Sangraha.[3] Mallisena, another disciple of Udaya-prabha Syadvada-manjari, a work on Jain philosophy in 1292 CE.

Works

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

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: David Pingree . David Pingree . Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit Series A . 1 . American Philosophical Society . 1970 . 57–58 .
  2. Book: Siba Pada Sen . Sources of the History of India . 1988 . Institute of Historical Studies . 4720835 . 196 .
  3. Book: Charlotte Krause . Ancient Jaina hymns . 1952 . Scindia Oriental Institute . 85851928 . 20 .
  4. Book: H. V. Sreenivasa Murthy . A History of Ancient India . 1963 . Bani Prakash Mandir . 30 .
  5. Book: A.K. Warder . Indian Kāvya Literature: The Wheel of Time . 7 . 1972 . Motilal Banarsidass . 604 . 9788120820289 .