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Swami Samantabhadra.
Here we only want to point out that only one Sanskrit commentary is available on this text so far, which was written by Prabhachandracharya and it is mostly ordinary. Yes, a Sanskrit commentary called 'Ratnakarandakavishampadavyaakhyan' is also found on this text, whose author's name could not be known from it. This commentary is present in the Jain Siddhanta Bhavan in Ara. Some commentaries of this text are also available in Kannada language, but nothing is known about their authors etc. The Tamil language text 'Arungalcheppu' (Ratnakarandaka), which has 180 verses, seems to have been created keeping this text in front, and except for some exceptions, it seems to be almost a paraphrase or summary of it. * But when it was made and who made it, there is no information about it, nor can it be called a commentary in the Tamil language.
6 Jivasiddhi. The knowledge of this text comes from the verse of the 'Harivanshapurana' written by Shri Jinaseenacharya, which has been quoted in the 'Gunadhiparichay'. The subject of the text is revealed by its name itself and it is a very useful subject. Shri Jinaseenacharya has called this discourse of Samantabhadra
1 Text Introduction, 2 Doubt on the Text, 3 Examination of the Verses of the Text, 4 Doubtful Verses, 5 More Copies, 6 Summary of the Examination, 7 Commentary and Commentator Prabhachandra.
* We have established this opinion from the English translation of this text which was published in several issues of the English Jain Gazette in the year 1923-24 under the name 'The Casket of Gems'.