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Time - Decision.
It seems that it is not right in any way. Taking this equation into account, the Toranaacharya mentioned in the two copper plates, due to being Kundakundanvayi, has been considered a scholar only one hundred and fifty years back; otherwise, there was no other basis for such an imagination. We see such mentions of many scholars in which they have been informed as Kundakundanvayi and they have been scholars from a thousand years before Kundakunda. For example, take the Pavali of Shubhachandracharya, in which the guru of Sakalakirti Bhattarak, 'Padmanandi', has been written as 'Tadanvaya Dharan Dhuri' after Kundakundaacharya and who was a scholar of about the 15th century AD. Therefore, it does not seem reasonable to consider Toranaacharya as a scholar of Shaka Samvat 600 and Kundakunda as a scholar 150 years before him - Shaka Samvat 450 - on the basis of the said copper plates and it seems to be based on the false imagination of the said equation. Before 450, there is a written Shaka Samvat 388
Same name was the contemporary and deciple of Sri. Kundakunda.
These words suggest that Chakravarti Maharaj may have found it doubtful that this Shivaskanda was in the first half of the first century AD, he also considers it possible that he was later, and therefore he has also given place to the imagination of another ancestor of the same name before this Shivaskanda for the contemporaneity and discipleship of Kundakunda.
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1 These copper plates are from the time of King Govinda III of the Rashtrakuta dynasty and are related to Prabhachandra, the disciple of Toranaacharya. One of them is of Shaka Samvat 719 and the other is of 724. See, the introduction of Samayaprābhṛta and the preface of Ṣaṭprābhṛtādisaṅgraha. 2 See the 4th Kiran of Jain Siddhāntabhāskara, page 43.