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INDEX OF AUTHORS.
Akalanka
The Digambara poet and philosopher. See Bhandarkar, Report 83-84, p. 122. Manikyanandin's book on Nyaya is based on his. 4, App. Ip. 155, 156. Reference is made to the legend according to which Akalanka, when embarrassed in controversy with a Buddhist antagonist, discovered that the latter was being effectively prompted by " Mayadevi” concealed in a jar, and kicking the jar over with his foot, put an end to that inspiration. 4, 157. Referred to, along with Dharmakirti and others, as a writer on logic, 5, 148. For Akalanka see also Pathak's Paper ou Bhartrihari and Kumarila, Jeurnal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, XVIJI, p. 221. According to Pathak Akalanka lived after the 7th century. He was a contemporary of the Rashtrakuta king Subhatunga or Krishnaraja I.
Ajitadevasuri
Pupil of Munichandrasuri and Manadevasari. Gora of Vijayasinhasuri, whose pupil Somaprabhacharya wrote the Kumarapalapratibodha in Samvat 1241. 5, 38. Ajitadevasuri and Vijayasinhasuri are Nos. 41 and 42 in the Tapagachchhapattavali. See also Weber p. 1006,
Ajitaprabhasuri
Author of the Santinathacharitra. He gives his genealogy as follows. After mention of Sadharma, Jambu and Prabhava, B 66%-i
