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INDEX OF AUTHORS.
Silagana sûri
Mentioned as an ornament of the Chandra gachchha. 3, App. p. 304. Mentioned as the pupil of Jayasiuha. 3, App. p. 41.
Silabhadra sûri
Mentioned as pupil of Vardhamâna and guru of Bharatesvara in the Râja gachchha. 3, App. p. 159. See also 3, App. p. 321.
Silabhadra sûri
Mentioned as guru of the Dharmaghosha who converted the king of Sakhambhari. 3, App. pp. 15 and 307.
Silamitra
Mentioned among the yugapradhanas. 3, App. p. 308.
Silaratna sûri
Author of a commentary on Merutunga's Meghadûta, which he wrote in Samvat 1491, in Anahillapâtaka. He describes himself as pupil of Jayakîrti who was pupil of Merutunga. 3, App. p. 248.
Silanka
Author of a commentary on the Achârângasûtra. 1, p. 68; App. p. 39; 3, p. 36; App. p. 89. He bases his work on an older commentary by Gandhahastin. He wrote his book in 'Saka 784 or 798. Compare Klatt in Ind. Ant. XI. p. 247. "The MSS. quote further Jinabhadraganikshamâśramaṇa, composer of Viscshâvaśyakâdibhashya, and his pupil Silanka, called Kotyâcharya, composer of vrittis on the first and second angas." In a note Klatt says that, according to Prabhavakachar. (XIX. v. 105 fg.). Silanka wrote vrittis on eleven angas, which with the exception of two have been lost. "The Achârângavritti contains the date of its composition, 'Saka 798. But as the verse which contains the date has been added after the colophon of the MS. it seems to be of no great weight." The first of the two Cambay copies, which was written in Samvat 1303 in Anahillapâtaka, while Visaladeva was reigning, at the expense of the minister Tejaḥpâla, has no date. But the second copy, which was written in Samvat 1327 or
