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The author gives the following genealogy of himself :
Dravidagana indradeva
Indranandi
Vasavanandi
Varshanandi
Ilarshanandi
Todranandı (the author ).
As to the time of the composition of the work we have the following account at tx end of the work :
अष्टाशतसैकषष्टिप्रमाणशकवत्सरेप्वतीतेपु । श्रीमान्यखेटकटकेपर्वण्यक्षयतृतीयायाम् ॥ ९॥ शतदलसहितचतुःशतपरिमाणग्रंथरचनया युक्तं । श्री कृष्णराजराज्ये समाप्तमतेन्मतं देव्या : ॥ १० ॥
इति हे (ए) लाचार्यप्रणीतार्थे श्रीमदिन्द्रनन्दियोगीन्द्रविरचित ग्रन्थ संदर्भ ज्वालिनी मते भृतामरं () नाम ज्वालिनी मतं WHITE 11
From this we learn that Indranandi wrote at Manyakheta in the Saka year 861 hen Krishnaraja was reigning. This mention of the year 861 is important inasmuch as it furnishr's the earliest date so far discovered for Krishnarāja (111) Up till now the earliest record for him was of the Saka vear 862
expired ), furnished by the Deoli plates. As for the original propounder of the Jvālāmālini cult, we have sech that Elacharya was onc of the five names of Kundakundā hārya. In the traditional life of Kundakundacharya, related in Joana.prabodha, we are told that Kundakundacharya had visited Videha-kshetra, and while returning from there after eight days' sojourn, he brought with him a book that dealt with many sciences, among which there was one of Mantras also. This book, however, he dropped in the ocean. This account in a way associates the science of mantras with Kundakunda Elacharya also. But this Elacharya may not be the propounder of the cult, because we are told that the propounder belonged to the Drāvidagana, which, according to Darsana-săra, originated about the 6th century A.D., its first Achārya being Pujyapāda;
