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... Time-Decision.
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He is considered a scholar of the third century, and this time is almost in line with the time of the list mentioned in Dr. Bhandarkar's report, in which Samantabhadra is described as a scholar close to Saka Samvat 60 (Vikram Samvat 195), and which has been accepted as evidence by scholars like Lewis Rice, etc.
If, in any way, the calculation of the Prakrit list is correct compared to the calculation of other ancient texts, and according to it, Bhadrabahu II is considered to have been established in the position of Acharya in Vikram Samvat 4; along with this, it is assumed that Kundakunda had taken initiation from him in Vikram Samvat 17, then this makes the period of Kundakunda's monkhood from Vikram Samvat 17 to 101, and this is the same time that is given in the second list of Nandisangha, and which has been considered above in relation to the statement of Chakravarti Maharaj. Accepting this time, Samantabhadra is indeed a scholar of the second century of Vikram, but there is still a need to resolve all the objections that have been raised above, or it has to be accepted that Kundakunda Acharya came before the Acharyas like Arhadvali, Maghanandi, Dharasen, Pushpadanta, Bhootbali and Gunadhar, and he did not write any 'tika' on the 'Shatkhandagam' of Pushpadanta-Bhootbali.
Tumbuluracharya and Shrivardhadeva. (ङ) In Shrutavatar, before Samantabhadra and after Padmanandi (Kundakunda) Muni and Shamakundaacharya, the commentator of the Siddhanta texts
1 There is no available commentary on the 'Shatkhandagam' Siddhanta text created by Kundakundaacharya.