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Swami Samantabhadra.
No. Because the commentator of a commentary on another's work, or rather, the first knowledge of the meaning of that work, does not belong to the commentator but to the original author. But here we do not need to go into this discussion further. We only want to point out from this mention that it mentions Samantabhadra's Maha-bhashya and refers to it by the name 'Samantabhadra Maha-bhashya' rather than 'Gandhasti'. But this mention does not reveal which work the commentary is written on. Like Umaswati's Tattvartha Sutra, it could be a commentary on the Karma Prabhat Siddhanta or on his own work. In such a situation, apart from knowing something about the creation of the Maha-bhashya, this mention does not yield any other special feature.
(5) In one place in the Swetambar text called Syadvadamanjari, the difference between Avayava and Pradesh is mentioned as follows, citing the texts 'Gandhasti' etc.
“Yadyapyavayavapradeshayorgandhastiyadishu bhedos'ti tathapi natra sukshmeksika chintya." This mention only reveals the existence of a text called 'Gandhasti' but it does not reveal whether it is the original text or a commentary, Digambar or Swetambar and what is the name of its author. It is possible that 'Gandhasti' here refers to Samantabhadra's Gandhasti Maha-bhashya, as indicated by Pandit Jawaharlal Shastri in the language commentary of the text.
1 This is a commentary on the 'Anyayogavyavachched-Dvatrimshika' written by Hemchandracharya, which was completed by Mallishena Suri in Saka Samvat 1214 (Vikram Samvat) 1349.