Nemichandra

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English Template:Infobox religious biography Template:Sidebar with collapsible lists Nemichandra (fl. c. 975), also known by his epithet Siddhanta Chakravarty, was a Jain acharya from present-day India. He wrote several works including Dravyasamgraha,Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Gommatsāra (Jivakanda and Karmakanda), Trilokasara, Labdhisara and Kshapanasara.

Life

Nemichandra flourished around 975.Template:Sfn He was popularly known as " Nemicandra

Siddhāntacakravartî" (i.e. the Paramount Lord of the Philosophy).Template:Sfn

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.Template:Sfn

Nemichandra supervised the abhisheka (consecration) of the Gommateshwara statue (on 13 March 980).Template:Sfn

Works

At the request of Chavundaraya, Nemichandra wrote Gommatsāra in 10th century,Template:Sfn taking the essence of all available works of the great Acharyas.Template:Sfn Gommatasara provides a detailed summary of Digambara doctorine.Template:Sfn

He wrote Trilokasara based on the Tiloya Panatti,Template:Sfn Labdhisara, Kshapanasara, Pratishthapatha and Pratishthatilaka.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Abhaya-chandra (c. 1325) wrote a vyakhyana on Nemichandra's Triloka-sara.Template:Sfn Indra-vama-deva wrote Trilokya-dipaka based on Nemichandra's Trailokya-sara, for Nemi-deva of the Puravata (or Pragvata) family.Template:Sfn

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.Template:Sfn

See also

• Dravya (Jainism)
• Buddhism

References

1. Shrivastava, Omkar Lal (2004) "On the Mathematical Contribution of Nemicandra Siddhāntacakravartî" Ph. D. thesis, Baraktullah University, Bhopal, pp. 1–256
2. Pingree, David, “Census of Exact Sciences in Sanskrit” American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia A, 5, p. 714 (1995).

Sources

• Shrivastava, Omkar Lal (2004) "On the Mathematical Contribution of Nemicandra Siddhāntacakravartî" Ph. D. thesis, Baraktullah University, Bhopal, pp. 1–256.

External links

• Chamundaraya and Nemichandra

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