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If the death year is not the year of his reign or birth, then the years of the Saka era or his age can be reduced from the previous 417 years.
King Shiv Kumar |
In the commentary of the 'Panchaastikaya' sutra written by Jayasenacharya, it is written that Shri Kundakundaacharya composed this scripture for the understanding of his disciple Shiv Kumar Maharaj, and he is the reason for the creation of this scripture.
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".... Shrimat Kundakundaacharya Devaih Shiv Kumar Maharajadisanksheparuchi Shishya pratibodhanartham Virachite Panchaastikaya praabhrut shaastre ........”
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"Atha praabhrut grantha Shiv Kumar Maharajo nimitta anyatra dravyasangrahaadou somashreshthayaadi jnatavyam. Iti sanskhepene nimitta kathitham. "
In the Kannada commentary of the scripture, which was made by 'Balachandra' Muni, a similar mention is found. Professor K.B. Pathak has equated this Shiv Kumar Maharaj with the Kadamba dynasty king 'Shiv Mrigesha Varma' - he is the same Shiv Kumar - and by determining the time of Shiv Mrigesha, 50 years before the destruction of the ancient Kadamba dynasty by the Chalukya emperor 'Kirtivarma' Maharaj in Vadami in Saka Samvat 500,
it has been established that Kundakundaacharya was in Saka Samvat
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(Vikram Samvat 585 or AD 528). This opinion of the learned scholar Mr. Pathak has been supported by Pandit Gajadharlalji
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is proved.
Nyayashastree,