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Swami Samantabhadra.
The 'Tattvarthaadhigamamokshashastra' of his 'Tattvarthashastra' has been mentioned and therefore the said verse has been considered as the mangalacharan of the Tattvarthaadhigamasutra, then from this the result of the said statements of AshtaSahasri and AaptaPariksha is only this that Samantabhadra has composed the 'AaptaMimamsa' treatise on the said verse of Umaswati in the same way as Vidyānanda has written the 'AaptaPariksha' - or say that just as the creation of 'Aataparīkshā' was not done while writing the ShlokaVaartika Bhashya and it is not a part of ShlokaVaartika, the same situation can be in the case of 'AaptaMimamsa' in relation to Gandhasti Mahabhashya, there is no obstacle from the said words of AshtaSahasri or AaptaPariksha; * and it does not follow from them that the 'AaptaMimamsa' was created while composing the Mahabhashya on the entire Tattvarth Sutra and therefore it is a part of it. Yes, if it can be assumed in some way that the 'AaptaPariksha' refers to Samantabhadra in the said 123rd verse and therefore the mangalacharan's praise verse (stotra) is composed by him, then the meaning of 'Tattvarthashastra' can be taken from the word 'proththan' of the said verse while doing Umaswati's Tattvarth Sutra; because the proththan of Tattvarth Sutra - raising it or increasing it - is done only by treatises like Mahabhashya. And the meaning of 'proththan'
* There is no obstacle from the following sentence of 'Samantabhadra-Bharati-Stotra', in which Samantabhadra's Bharati (AaptaMimamsa) has been symbolically told as 'taken for the meaning of the excellent mangal said by Grdhrapichchaacharya'
"Grdhrapichcha-bhashit-prakrushta-mangal-arthikaam."