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Jñanabhushana composed the Tattva.jnana-tarangini in V.S. Kānabhushaņa.
560 as expressed in the following
verse: यदैव विक्रमातीताःशतपञ्चदशाधिका: । षष्टीसंवत्सरा जातास्तदेयं निर्मिता कृति ॥ ५३ ॥
He gives his lineage thus:
Sakalakirtti
Bhuvanakirtti
Jõānabhūshana (the author).
Sumatikirtti completed the commentary on Karmakānda of Sumatıkirtti.
Nemichandra, according to the Senagana
temple manuscript of the work on toth of Bhadrapada Sukla V. S. 1620 (1563 A. D.). The Mangalacharaṇa of this work runs as follows:
महावीर प्रणम्यादौ विश्वतत्त्वप्रकाशकं ।
भाष्यहि कर्मकाण्डस्य वक्ष्ये भव्य हितंकरं ॥ १ ॥ विद्यानंदि सुमल्लयादिभूषं लक्ष्मीन्दुसद्गुरून् । वीरेन्दुं ज्ञानभूषं हि वंदे सुमतिकीर्त्यहम् ॥ २॥
His spiritual genealogy as expressed in these verses and also in many other places is as follows:
Vidyānandi
Mallibhushana
Lakshmichandra
Virachandra
Jhānabhushana
Sumatikirtti (the author).
Sumatikirtti's another work is Siddhāntasära-bhashya, a commentary in Sanskrit on the Prakrit work of Jinachandra This has been published in the Mānikachandra Digambara Books Series, but the work has been assigned there to the authorship of Jha'nabhushana. The manuscripts from which the press copy was prepared bore no prasasti of the author and the
