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INDEX OF AUTHORS.
Meghavijaya upadhyaya
Author, in Samvat 1757, of a commentary on Hemachandra's Sabdânus sana, which he called Chandraprabhâ. 3, p. 10.
Medhavin
Pupil of Jinachandra. Author of a prasasti attached to Vasunandin's Acharavṛitti (a Digambara book). 2, p. 136. No. 1430 of this Report's Collection has a prasasti by the same writer in which his date is given as Samvat 1519.
Merutunga
Metioned as pupil of Mahendraprabha and guru of Jayakîrti in the Anchala gachchha. 3, App. p. 220. Author of the Sûrimantrakalpasâroddhara. 3, App. p. 364. Author of a commentary on the Meghadûta. 3, App. p. 248. In the Anchalagachchhapattavali the dates for this teacher are given as follows:-Birth, Samyat 1403; dikshâ, Samvat 1418, âchâryapada, Samvat 1426, gachchhanayaka, Samvat 1446; death, Samvat 1471. Compare Weber, I. p. 297. Guru of Mânikyachandrasûri. 1, p. 123. (No. 262.)
Merutunga
Author of the Mahapurushacharitra, otherwise called Upadesasata. 3, App. p. 266. He refers to his guru Chandraprabha, as he does also in the beginning of his Prabandhachintamani. A third name for the present book is Dharmopadeśa. (No. 1269 of this Report's Collection. Insert the author's name.) Compare Weber, II. p.. 1024. "According to Bhau Daji, Journal of the Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society, 9, p. 147 (1867), Merutunga composed also a Therâvalî; which Bhan Daji gives there, a Shaddarśanavichâra, and the Prabandhachintamani. This last book composed Samvat 1867, according to Bühler (Life of Hemachandra) rather Samvat 1362, at Vardhamânapura or Vadvana in Kattiwar." Weber. Compare. 2, p. 87. The Prabandhachintamani has been published with a translation into Gujarathi by Mr. Dinanath Ramchandra Sastri (Bombay, 1888).
Modha rishi
Mentioned among the yugapradhanas. 3, App. p. 308.
