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It is found in the inscription No. 42 of the place, and therefore this Prabhachandra was a scholar of the early half of the 13th century Vikram era.
(12) He is Prabhachandra, who wrote a commentary on the Prakrit 'Uttara Purana' of 'Pushpadanta' in the reign of Jaisingh and who was a resident of Dharanagari. The eulogy* of this commentary is as follows
"Nityam tatra tava prasannamanas yatpunyamatyadbhutam yatantena samastavastuvishayam cetacchamarakarakaḥ | Vyākhyātam hi tadā purāṇamamalam svaspashtiṣṭākṣaraḥ bhūyāñcetaṣi dhīmatāmatitarām candrārkatārāvadhiḥ || 1 || Tattvādhāramahapuraṇagamanayotī janānandanah sarvaprāṇimanahprabedapatutāpraspaṣṭavākyaḥ karaḥ | Bhavyābjapratibodhakaḥ samudito bhūbhṛtprabhācandrataḥ
Jiyāṭṭipanakah pracandataraniḥ sarvārtham agradhyutiḥ || 2 || Śrījayasiṃhadevarājye śrīmaddhārānivāsina parāparaparameṣṭhipranāmopārjitā.. malapuṇyanirākṛtākhilamalkalanken śrīprabhācandrapanditena mahāpurāṇatippaṇake śatatrādhīkasahasratrayaparimaṇam kṛtamiti |" - It is known that this Jaisingh king, in whose reign the said commentary was written. was the successor of 'Devapaldev' and was also called 'Jaitu gidev'. He ascended the throne of his father sometime between Vikram Samvat 1292 and 1296 and his reign is found till Vikram Samvat 1312 or 1313. The famous scholar Pt. Ashadharji wrote commentaries on 'Sagardharmamrit' and 'Anagardharmamrit' in the reign of this king.
But in the above eulogy, Prabhachandra has used the same two epithets for himself besides 'Dharanivasi' which are found in the last prose lines of the commentary on 'Pramayakamalamatenda' quoted in number 9 and from this it can be said that both the commentators were the same person. If this
* This eulogy . was copied by Pt. Pannalalji Bakliwal from the 223rd copy of the treasure of Jaipur Patodi temple. We came to know this from a letter of his, dated 4th June 1923.