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there about the chapters: It is said that 30 chapters were written originally and two more chapters one named Nyāyāvatāra and another named Virastuti, made up the number 32 Moreover it is mentioned that in the stotra Kalyānamandira, the number of the verses is 44. Thus the name of Kalyanamandira which is not found in the first two composition has later on found a place in the Prabhavaka Carita, and it is because of this probably that the name Kumudacandra given to Siddhasena does not occar in the first two compositions. It is mentioned in the Prabhāvaka Carita by saying that this name Kumudacandra was given to Siddhasena by his precepter Vțddhavādi at the time of initiating him into Jaina religion. Here the reader should bear this fact in mind that the name Kamudacandra' is originally used as an epithet of the devine Lord Mahāvira, in the last verse of Kalyāna. mandira. Bat on the strength of a pun which is so common in Saṁskặta language, it has been applied by the Pandits versed in Jaina tradition to Siddhasena as his another name. In the Prabandha Cintāmaņi, on the other hand, there is no mention whatsoever either of the Stotra Kalyānmandira or of the number of the chapters of Dwatrimśikā. But in the Caturvimsati Prabhandha again the number 32 of the Dwatrimsikas along with the mention of the Kalyānamandira is found. Looking to all these conflicting accounts, we can only arrive at this conclusion that Kalyānamandira is the 33rd work of Divā kara the 32 Dwatrimśikas being the other 32 works of Divākara.
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