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From the prasasti, we get the following genealogy of the author :
Kundakundacharya
Srikirtti
Srutakirtti
Gunākarahirtti
l'irachanda.
Srichandra (the authur). As already observed, we have recently been given notice of the
publication in Roman characters with Dimapula
an introduction in German of the Bhavishyadlatta.charita ol Dhanapala. In the Senagana temple collections two complete manuscriptol this work were found amongst a heap of incomplete and rotten manuscripts bundled apart as waste. One of these is dated Kürttika Sukla 5, Sainvat 1593 and the other Karttiha Sukla 5, Blaumavāra, Samvat 1506. The work is completed in 22 wandhis or chapters and 3.500 Slokis. It opeos with .. verse 1a Soratha chhanda. There Is no mention of ani date or author's genedlogy except that his father was Mabeki ara and mother Dhanasri and that he belonged to Dhakkadla family of the Vaisya caste. Though this account does not help us in determining the date of the author, it at any rate mahes it clear that he has to be distinguished from the author of Tilaka-manjari and that of Paiva-lachchhinäma-mala, who lived in the 11th century A. D. Nothing certain can be said except that our author also probably belonged to the same period.
This author in the prasasti of his work Sudarsana.charita Nayanandi. tells us that he wrote it in V.S. 1100
(A. D. 1043) during the reign of Bhojadeva of Dhāra (ct. cxtract). By the life account of a religious hero it illustrates the mahatmy of Navakara noantra. The work consists of twele chapters. The authoi's spiritual gelie.logy is as follows.
Kundakundacharya
Padmanandi Rămanandi
Manikyanandi
Nayanandi (thc author).
