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Swami Samantabhadra.
It is also heard from others that before this, another text or treatise was composed. In such a situation, it does not seem inappropriate to call that "Granthraj" as "Gandhasti", whose "Devagam" and "Yuktyanusasan" are like precious original texts of great glory. It is not known then, how many such precious texts would be included in that Maha-bhashya. Its disappearance is undoubtedly a great misfortune for the Jain community.
Regarding the Mangalacharan of Maha-bhashya, although no definite opinion can be given in this matter, yet there is definitely a possibility of the verse "Mokshamargasya Netaram" being the Mangalacharan. And there is also a greater possibility that it is composed by Samantabhadra. But it is also possible - although its possibility is less - that the said verse is the Mangalacharan of Umashwatik's Tattvarth Sutra and Samantabhadra accepted it as the initial Mangalacharan of Maha-bhashya. In such a situation, there is a need for a proper solution to all the objections that are made when this verse is considered as the Mangalacharan of Tattvarth Sutra and which have been shown above. In our opinion, to consider all these things and to get a good decision about all of them, there seems to be a further need to explore the ancient Jain literature in relation to Maha-bhashya. And that need increases even more when we see that all the mentions above are from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries of Vikram era. Before that,
1 See those footnotes of the mentions in which the time of their authors is given.