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completed his Parsvanatha-charita in the Saka year 947 (A.D. 1025) makes mention of him and his work. Viranandi gives his spiritual genealogy as follows.
Desigana
Gunanandi
T Abhayanand!
Viranandi
It is just possible that Nemichandra's Abhayanandi and Viranandi are identical with those occurring in this genealogy
The verse in Karmakanda referring to Indranandi and Kauakanandi is thts -
वर इंददि गुरुणो पासे सोऊण सयलसिद्धतं ।
सिरि कणयदिगुरुणा सत्तट्ठाणं समुद्दिनं ।। ३९६ ॥
It may be that this Indranandi is the same as the author of Jvalamalini-kalpa noticed above. From the verse it appears that Kanakanandi, the pupil of Indranandi, wrote a work named "Sattat tḥana' (Saptasthana). But nothing further is known about the work.
Trilokasära is one of the works of Nemichandra, but. the commentator Madhavachandra declares that he incorporated many verses of his own in the work with the consent of Nemichandra
गुरु मिचंदसद कदिपयगाहा तर्हि तर्हि रहदा
माहवचंद तिविज्जे णिण मणुसर णिज्ज मज्झेहिं ॥ १०१४ ॥
This makes Madhavachandra a contemporary of Nemichandra. Madhavachandra is also the author of "Kshapanasara in Sanskrit. The date of the composition of this work is declared in the following verse which is taken from the Karanja manuscript :
अमुना माघवचन्द्रदिव्यगणिना त्रैविद्यचक्रेशिना क्षपणासारमकारि बाहुबलिसन्मन्त्रीशसंज्ञप्तया । शक्काले शरसूर्यचन्द्र गणिते जाते प्रभौक्षुल्लके शुभदे दुंदुभिवत्सरे विजयतामाचन्द्रतारं भुवि ।
The date expressed is probably Saka 1125. Saka 1124, however, was Dundubhi. In view of this date it seems difficult how he can be accepted to be a contemporary of Nemichandra. Yet out of this confusion the balance of evidence goes in favour of Nemichandra's existence in 1024 A.D., which carries the
