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Swami Samantabhadra.
Respected scholars have indicated that the meaning should not be understood from the death of one and the birth of another, but from the time of their attainment of the Acharya position, attainment of knowledge, etc., or from the perspective of greatness and smallness. Or, it can also be called a style of the authors to narrate in sequence. Thus, it is possible that Kundakunda wrote the commentary on the 'Shatkhandagama' principle after becoming established at that time * and leaving aside the aforementioned point of Pattachali, light can be shed on many other things. _ Considering the birth of Vikram 470 years after the Veer Nirvan and accepting that the Vikram Samvat was prevalent 18 years after the birth of the Rajya Samvat, the entire Muni life of Kundakunda comes to be from 120 to 204 in the Vikram Samvat. And if the prevalent Vikram Samvat is the death Samvat or the birth Samvat, then this period can also be said to be from 60 to 144 or from 138 to 222 respectively, by reducing it by 60 years or increasing it by 18 years. In this long Muni life of Kundakunda, which includes about 52 years of his Acharya period, it is not unnatural for two or three generations of Kundakunda to have passed - to have existed in his time. It is not surprising if Samantabhadra's Muni life began only in his old age and thus there is a difference of about 60 years between the two. In such a situation, Samantabhadra could be in the second or third generation of Vikram, or the second, or _ * If Kundakunda did not actually write any commentary on the 'Shatkhandagama', then his initiation period can be considered 10-15 years earlier; and then his previous time will have to be reduced by 10-15 years.