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Swami Samantabhadra.
Refers to a scholar named 'Tumbuluracharya' in form, who was a resident of the village 'Tumbullur' and was called 'Tumbulluracharya' from this. Along with this, it has been told that he wrote that commentary in Kannada language, it is 84 thousand verses in quantity and its name is 'Chudamani'. The real name of Tumbuluracharya is said to be 'Srivardhadeva' - scholars like Lewis Rice, Edward Rice and S.G. Narasimhacharya etc. have made the same statement in their respective books - but what is the basis of telling this, it is not clear. In Rajavali Kathe, this commentary is mentioned by the name 'Chudamani Vyakhyan', it is written as the work of Tumbuluracharya and the number of books is also given as 84 thousand; in Karnataka Shabdanusasan, 'Chudamani' is called a great book of Kannada language, it is indicated as the commentary of Tattvarthamaha Shastra, the number of books is given as 96 thousand but the name of the author is not given, and in the 54th inscription of Shravanabelagola, Shri
* As - Ath Tumbulurnamacharyo'bhuut Tumbulurasgrame.
Shashthena vina khandena so'pi siddhantyorubhayo: || 165 || Chaturadhikashiti sahasra manthara chanaya yuktam. Karnatabhashaya'krut mahati chudamani vyakhyam || 166 ||
x See 'Inscriptions at Shravanabelagola' p. 44, 'History of Kannada Literature' p. 24 and 'Karnataka Kavicharite' based on Pandit Nathuramji Premi - written 'Karnataka Jain Kavi' p. 5.
1 See the following passage from Rajavali Kathe which Mr. Rice has quoted in the introduction to the inscriptions of Shravanabelagola 'Tumbuluracharyyar embhat - nal - sasir - granth - kartrigalaagi Karnatakabhasheyam Chudamani Vyakhyanam madi dar.'