- Jitendriya Jitendriya is one of those writers who at one time held an eminent position but in course of time sank into unmerited oblivion. The works of Jimūtavāhana bear abundant testi mony to the fact that Jitendriya wrote an extensive work on dharmaśāstra. In his Kālaviveka (p. 380 ) Jimūta vāhana says that Jitendriya797 wrote on the topic of kāla (i. e. on determining doubtful points about the months, the tithis, samkrāntis, &c, and the religious rites to be performed on them ). In several passages of the Kālaviveka the very words of Jitendriya are quoted. Jitendriya said that a rite that occupies in performance only a short time must be per
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formed at the principal time indicated for it798 ( and not at a gauna time ). From another quotation it appears that Jitendriya controverted the views of a predecessor Sambhra mabhatta.799 Jitendriya is said to have enumerated the names of the fifteen muhūrtus of the day from the Matsyapurāṇa ; 800 vide pp. 257, 367 of the Kalaviveka for other places where the views of Jitendriya on kāla occur. In the Dāyabhāga of Jimūtavāhana also Jitendriya is frequently mentioned. The Dāyabhāga says that, if a man takes another’s gold believing it to be iron or takes what is another’s believing ( in good faith) that it is his own, Jitendriya held in his remarks on the section of prayascitta that he is not guilty of theft. 801 The peculiar doctrine of the Dāyabhāga that the widow of a person, whether he was separate or a member of a joint family, succeeded to her deceased husband’s estate had been already expounded by Jitendriya.802 The view of Jitendriya was that whatever is acquired by a person without using means or materials jointly owned by all members of a family is his exclusive property and that maitra ( gifts of a friend ) and audvāhika are only cited ( by Yāj. ) as examples of this proposition.803 Jitendriya
798 तथा जितेन्द्रियेणाप्युक्तं यत्पुनरल्पकालीनमेव कृत्यं स्वकाले समापयितुं शक्यते
तत्रोत्कर्षहेतोः कर्मवैतत्यस्यासामर्थ्यस्याभावान्मुख्यकाल एव कर्मानुष्ठानमित्यन्तम् ।
कालविवेक p. 489. 799 अन्यान्यपि एवंविधानि संभ्रमभट्टकल्पितान्युपेक्षणीयानि इत्यदन्तं, तदयमति
मन्दतमो वादः कथं सुन्दरमतिना जितेन्द्रियेणाभिनन्दितः । कालविवेक p. 255. 800 अत एव जितन्द्रियेण ‘रौद्रश्चैत्रश्च मैत्रश्च…भटः पञ्चदश स्मृताः ॥’ एतान्मत्स्य
पुराणोक्तानेकैकमुहूर्तपरिमितान् यावन्नियतक्रमसंज्ञानभिधाय दर्शितम् । काल
विवेक p. 370. 801 अत एव प्रायश्चित्तकाण्डे जितेन्द्रियेण भणितं यदि स्वर्णमेव परकीयं लौहादि
बुद्धया गृह्णाति असुवर्ण सुवर्णबुद्धया आत्मीयसदृशं परकीयमेवात्मीयबुद्ध्या गृह्णाति सर्वत्र नापहारनिष्पत्तिः सर्वत्र यथावस्तु परकीयबुद्धरभावात् । दायभाग
p. 350 ( ed. of 1829, p. 224 of Jivananda ). 802 अतोऽविशेषेणव विभक्तत्वाद्यनपेक्षयैवापुत्रस्य भर्तुः कृत्स्नधने पन्यधिकारो जिते.
न्द्रियोक्त आदरणीयः । दायभाग p. 256, ed. of 1829 and p. 166 of
Jivananda’s ed. 803 जितेन्द्रियेणापि बहुप्रकारं विमृश्योक्तं तदस्य यावदुक्तप्रपञ्चस्य संक्षेपेणायमर्थः
प्रत्येतव्यः-यत्किंचिद्धनमसाधारणोपायार्जितं तदसाधारणं प्रदर्शितमित्यन्तेन । दायभाग p. 120 ( edition of Jivananda ).
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held the daughter’s son entitled to succeed after the daughter, just as Viśvarūpa, Bhoja and Govindarāja did. In the Vyava hāramātṇkā of Jimātavāhana also Jitendriya’s views are cited (on pp. 302, 334 ). This shows that he wrote also on pro cedure in law courts. Jitendriya is also referred to in the Dāyatattva of Raghunandana.804 But no other early writer quotes Jitendriya. Therefore it appears that Jitendriya was probably a Bengal writer and flourished about 1000-1050 A. D. and that he was completely eclipsed by the brilliant Jimutavāhana.