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Bombay, 1966, pp. 78-86 and in Intro. to the Brhat-Kathakosa,
pp. 55-57, respectively.
Bhagavati Aradhanā, p. 643, commentary.
There appears to have been a good tradition of writing commentaries in Kannada on the Aradhana texts. Though long after Bhrajisnu, we find that Kesavavarni wrote a Commentary (c.1359 A.D.) on the Aradhanasara of Devasena, Karnataka Kavicarite Vol.I, Bangalore 1961, p. 469. Later Santikirti wrote a Commentary (1755-A.D.) on the same Aradhanasara, Karnataka Kavicarite, Vol. III, Bangalore 1929, p. 113. Moreover one of the MSS of Aradhana Samuccaya of Ravicandra.(who flourished between 950 and 1556 A.D. Dr. A.N. Upadhye: Intro. to the Aradhanasaumccayam Yogasarasangraha, Bharatiya Jñānapitha, Kashi 1967, p.8) is endowed with a Kannada Commentary: Kannada Prantiya Tadapatriya Granthasuci, p. 37, Ms. No. 40.
(i) Jivaraja Jaina Series, No. 14, Solapur 1964. The General Editors Dr. A.N. Upadhye and Dr. Hiralal Jain, propose that this work must have been composed between 991-1331 A.D.
(ii) For details regarding some sources of this work, see my paper Observstions on some Sources of the Punyaasrava Kathakosa, Journal of the Karnatak University (Hum.) Vol. XIV.
That these two scholars might have ignored the story element voluntarily, as Dr. Upadhye suggests (Intro. to the Brhat-kathākosa, p. 58), can also be the other possibility.
But there is no evidence to show this too.
(i) Composed by an unkonwn author, a (Digambara) monk in all probability.
(ii) Ed. Prof. D.L. Narasimhachar, Kannada Kavi Kāvyamāla,
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