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पोखराणिषाविपउरे बहुमवणविहसिपरमरम्मे । पाणाजणकिण्णे धनधन्नसमाउले दिव्वे ॥ १६७ ॥ सम्मादिट्टिजणोघे मुणिगणणिवहेहि मंडिएरम्मे। देसम्म पारियते जिणभवणविहूसिए दिव्वे ॥ १६८ ॥ जंबू दीवस्स तहा पण्णची बहुपयस्थसंयुत्तं । लिहियं संखेवेण वाराए अच्छमाणेण ॥ १६९ ॥ छदमत्येण विरइयं किंपि हवेजणवयणविरुद्धं । मोदंतु सुगीदत्या तं पवयणं वच्छलताए ॥ १७० ।।
From the above extract we get the following genealogy of the author:
Viranandi.
Balanandi
Padmanandi (the author). We further learn that Padmanandi studied "the Āgama" from one " Vijay aguru " a saint Rishi), and that he con posed the work at " Bara" for the use of one Nandigaru, the distifleol Sakalachaudra, the disciple of Maghanandi. If this Mägtanandi is to be identified with the one mentioned by Indranandi in his "Srutavatara" as having followed "Arhatvall" soon after 633 years of Nirvana, we might safely assign the work to about 500 A.D. Bari is probably identical with the village of the same name in the Kota state of Rajputana (cf. Fain Sahitya Samsodhaka, Vol. I., pp. 144-150).
Nothing is known about the author of a very important Śivakoti.
Prakrit work "Malaradhana" better known
as "Bhagavati aradhana" beyond his name and that of his three preceptors. 1o Adi-purana Jinasena refers to him and his work in the following words :
शीतीमूतं जगवस्य वाचाराध्य चतुष्टयं । मोक्षमार्ग स पायानः शिवकोटिमुनीश्वरः ।।
In Brahma Nemidatta's "Katha kosha" Samantabhadrain wid to have converted a king of Benares, whose name was "Sivakoti". The tendency is to identify the author with this convert of Samantabhadra. But if this be a fact, it seems strange
