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1 SIDDHASENA DIVĀKARA
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was written in Prākṣta and would have occupied an important place in the biography of Divākara.
Among all these 23 extant works there are only two in which there is a mention of the name Siddhasena. In the 5th and the 21st Batrići in the concluding portion there occurs the word Siddhasena which is evidently used in a double sense. In no other Dwátrimsikã the word Siddhagena is found mentioned, not even in the Kalyāṇamandira. The name Kumudacındra is suggested by means of a pun in it if we regard the tradition as reliable. But the name Siddhasenais not found in Sanmati even by means of a pun. The question naturally, therefore, arises as to wbat evidence there is to show that all these works were written by Siddhasena Divā kara and nobody else. The answer to this question can only be given on the strength of references and the peculiar genius of the author manifest in all the works..
In all these works, the subject matter and sometimes even the language is different, but the common feature of all these works is this that the profound genius of the author is evident uniformly in all these works. The language of Kalyāṇamandira8 and the flights of fancy
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"महाशान्तिमा महासिद्धसेनः । महाधिनेशो महाशामहेन्द्रो"-२१.३१।
2 The word Siddha occurs in the very first Gatha of Sanmati. It can suggest the name of the author.
3 Prof. Jacobi thinks that the stotra can not have been by Siddhasena Divakara. One of his arguments is this that there is no mention of the name of Siddhasena at the end of the stotra Kalyana Mandir as it is there at the end of Virastuti The Second
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