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This passage relates to the third chapter of the Sutra. At the beginning of this text, the following sentence is written in bold letters as a salutation: " _Namoastu to the divine Sri Pada Padma Galige, the Acharya Lakshmi Sena, the descendant of Samantabhadra, the lord of the Devagama, the master of Syadvada Vidya, who composed the Gandhasti Maha Bhashya, a commentary on the Tattvartha, comprising 96,000 verses (k)_. " This sentence pays homage to the lotus feet of Lakshmi Sena Acharya, a resident of Penugonde, and also states that he belonged to the lineage of Samantabhadra Acharya, who authored the Gandhasti Maha Bhashya, a commentary on the Tattvartha, comprising 96,000 verses, and who was the lord of the Devagama and the master of Syadvada Vidya.
Of the three epithets given to Samantabhadra here, the first two are almost identical to those found in the play "Vikranta Kaurava" and the verses of "Jinendra Kalyana Abyudaya," especially in its variant readings. The only difference is that here, "Tattvartha Sutra Vyakhyan" is replaced by "Tattvartha Vyakhyan" and "Gandhasti" is replaced by "Gandhasti Maha Bhashya." Additionally, the size of the Gandhasti Maha Bhashya is given as 96,000 verses, which is 12,000 more than its commonly accepted size (84,000).
1. The inscription of a disciple of Lakshmi Sena Acharya, Malli Shandev, is found in the 168th inscription of Shravanabelagola, which is said to be from around 1400 AD. It is possible that this inscription refers to the disciple of this Lakshmi Sena, which would make Lakshmi Sena a scholar from around the 14th century. Two other scholars named Lakshmi Sena have been found, but they are Acharyas from the 16th and 18th centuries.