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Swami Samantabhadra.
This introduction also mentions the specific place or village where the logical sun, Swami Samantabhadra, rose and illuminated the meaning of the karma-influenced principles with his commentary. However, due to some errors in the text, the name could not be clearly understood. By replacing 'आसन्ध्यां पलरि' with 'आसीद्यः पलरि', Pandit Jinadas Parsvanathji Fadkule has interpreted it as 'आनंद नांवाच्या गांवांत' - in the village of Anand. However, it is not clear how this interpretation can be derived from the second reading. Upon inquiry, the Pandit writes, "In the Marathi translation of the Shrutapanchami Kriya, it is written that Samantabhadracharya was born in Anand." Based solely on this, you have interpreted 'पलार' as 'in the village of Anand', which does not seem correct, nor does your reading of 'आसीद्यः' seem accurate to us. Because the verb 'अभूत' exists, the verb 'आसीत्' becomes redundant. In our opinion, if the word 'पलर' or a similar word is used in the sense of 'village' in the Karnataka region, and its form in the seventh case is 'पलरि', then it can be said that the reading should be 'आनंद्यां' instead of 'आसन्ध्यां'. This would then suggest that Samantabhadra composed this commentary while staying in 'Aanand Palli' or 'Aanand Math'.
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