Nemichandra

Acharya Shri Nemichandra Siddhanta Chakravarty
Image of digambar acharya (head of the monastic order)
Personal life
Born	10th century
Died	10th century
Religious life
Religion	Jainism
Sect	Digambara

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,[1][2] Gommatsāra (Jivakanda and Karmakanda), Trilokasara, Labdhisara and Kshapanasara.

Life

Nemichandra flourished around 975.[3] He was popularly known as " Nemicandra

Siddhāntacakravartî" (i.e. the Paramount Lord of the Philosophy).[4]

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.[4]

Nemichandra supervised the abhisheka (consecration) of the Gommateshwara statue (on 13 March 980).[4][5]

Works

At the request of Chavundaraya, Nemichandra wrote Gommatsāra in 10th century,[6] taking the essence of all available works of the great Acharyas.[4] Gommatasara provides a detailed summary of Digambara doctorine.[6]

He wrote Trilokasara based on the Tiloya Panatti,[7] Labdhisara, Kshapanasara, Pratishthapatha and Pratishthatilaka.[8][9] Abhaya-chandra (c. 1325) wrote a vyakhyana on Nemichandra's Triloka-sara.[10] Indra-vama-deva wrote Trilokya-dipaka based on Nemichandra's Trailokya-sara, for Nemi-deva of the Puravata (or Pragvata) family.[3]

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.[11]

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).

Citations

1. Jain 2022.
2. Jain 2013.
3. Pingree 1970, p. 55.
4. Sangave 2001, p. 206.
5. Tukol, T. K., Jainism in South India
6. Orsini & Schofield 1981, p. 71.
7. Shah 1987, p. 239.
8. Sangave 2001, p. 205-206.
9. Shah 1987, p. 249.
10. Pingree 1970, p. 45.
11. Sangave 2001, p. 205.

Sources

• Orsini, Francesca; Schofield, Katherine Butler, eds. (1981), Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India, Open Book Publishers, ISBN 978-1-78374-105-2
• Pingree, David, ed. (1970). Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit Series A. Vol. 1. American Philosophical Society.
• Sangave, Vilas Adinath (2001), Facets of Jainology: Selected Research Papers on Jain Society, Religion, and Culture, Mumbai: Popular Prakashan, ISBN 978-81-7154-839-2
• Shah, Umakant Premanand (1987), Jaina-rūpa-maṇḍana: Jaina iconography, Abhinav, ISBN 81-7017-208-X
• Shrivastava, Omkar Lal (2004) "On the Mathematical Contribution of Nemicandra Siddhāntacakravartî" Ph. D. thesis, Baraktullah University, Bhopal, pp.1-256.
• Jain, Vijay K. (2022). Ācārya (Muni) Nemicandra’s Dravyasaṃgraha – With Authentic Explanatory Notes आचार्य (मुनि) नेमिचन्द्र विरचित द्रव्यसंग्रह - प्रामाणिक व्याख्या सहित. Dehradun: Vikalp Printers. ISBN 978-93-5737-427-9.
• Jain, Vijay K. (2013). Ācārya Nemichandra's Dravyasaṃgraha आचार्य नेमिचन्द्र विरचित "द्रव्यसंग्रह". Dehradun: Vikalp Printers. ISBN 81-903639-5-6.

External links

• Chamundaraya and Nemichandra