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## Introduction to the Text
Here, two examples are given of forms that occur with the suffixes *aṇādi* in the sense of *tṛtīyānta* (third case ending) - one is *āhet-pravacana* and the other is *sāmanta-bhadra-mahābhāṣya*. Additionally, the meaning of *upajñāta* is given as *prathamato jñāta* - known first without instruction. *Amarakośa* also writes *ādyajñāna* as *upajñā*. From this perspective, the *pravacana* first known by the *arhanta* is called *āhet-pravacana*, in the same way, the *mahābhāṣya* first known by *sāmanta-bhadra* without instruction is called *sāmanta-bhadra-mahābhāṣya*. This should be understood as meaning that *sāmanta-bhadra*’s *mahābhāṣya* is his own *svopjñā* commentary - a commentary written on his own text. Otherwise, it would be mentioned in the commentary on the sūtra *ṭaḥ prokte*, where examples of forms made with these suffixes in the sense of *prokta* and *vyākhyāta* are given, and *sāmanta-bhadra* is also an example, but the word *mahābhāṣya* is not mentioned with it.
And those who are written as complete knowers (scholars) of *śabdāgama*, *paramāgama*, and *tarkāgama* in the praise of *śrutamuni*’s *bhāvasaṅgraha*. Their time is also found here; because *śrutamuni*’s *aṇuvrata-guru* and *guru-bhrātā* *bāla-candra muni* wrote a commentary on the *dravya-saṅgraha* sūtra in Śaka Saṃvat 1195 (Vikrama Saṃvat 1330) (see *Karnāṭaka-kavi-carita*). But *śrutamuni*’s *dīkṣā-guru* *abhaya-candra* *saiddhanta* seems to be different from this *abhaya-candra-sūri*; because in the Śravaṇa-belagola inscriptions no. 41 and 105, he is written as the disciple of *māgha-nandī*. But his time is also the 13th and 14th centuries of Vikrama. The existence of some other scholars named *abhaya-candra* is found in the 16th and 17th centuries of Vikrama. But they do not seem to be the authors of this *prakriyā-saṅgraha*.
1. This is the 169th sūtra of the first pāda of the same third chapter; and its serial number in *prakriyā-saṅgraha* is given as 743.