Nemichandra
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Life
Nemichandra flourished around 975.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". He was popularly known as " Nemicandra
Siddhāntacakravartî" (i.e. the Paramount Lord of the Philosophy).Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
He was the spiritual teacher of Cāmuṇḍarāya and their relation is expressed in the 1530 inscription in the enclosure of Padmavati temple, Nagar Taluka, Shimoga district.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Nemichandra supervised the abhisheka (consecration) of the Gommateshwara statue (on 13 March 980).Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[1]
Works
At the request of Chavundaraya, Nemichandra wrote Gommatsāra in 10th century,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". taking the essence of all available works of the great Acharyas.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Gommatasara provides a detailed summary of Digambara doctorine.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
He wrote Trilokasara based on the Tiloya Panatti,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Labdhisara, Kshapanasara, Pratishthapatha and Pratishthatilaka.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Abhaya-chandra (c. 1325) wrote a vyakhyana on Nemichandra's Triloka-sara.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Indra-vama-deva wrote Trilokya-dipaka based on Nemichandra's Trailokya-sara, for Nemi-deva of the Puravata (or Pragvata) family.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Earlier scholars believed that Dravya-sangraha was also written by him, however, new research reveals that this compendium was written by Acharya Nemichandra Siddhantideva who was contemporary to the Paramara king Bhoja.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
See also
References
- Shrivastava, Omkar Lal (2004) "On the Mathematical Contribution of Nemicandra Siddhāntacakravartî" Ph. D. thesis, Baraktullah University, Bhopal, pp. 1–256
- Pingree, David, “Census of Exact Sciences in Sanskrit” American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia A, 5, p. 714 (1995).
Citations
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