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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Kāli-bhakti-rasāyana, Pratāparudra-nibandha, Nrsimhaprasāda, Rūpanārāyaṇa and Viśvarūpācārya in the Candikārcana-dipikā and Rāmārcana-candrikā in the Ramapūjā-tarangini. Further, if he is the author of the Avatāra-bheda-prakāśikā he must be later than the 16th century when the Rādhāvallabhi sect, referred to in it, was founded by Hitaharivamsa. He also appears to have been later than Amrtānandanātha and Mahīdhara (16th century), authors of commentaries respectively on the Yogini-hrdaya and the Mantramahodadhi, for though he does not refer to them by name, his commentaries on those works are based on and occasionally agree with those by the former two.
KESAVA VIŠVARŪPA.
Keśava, who had the unusual title Viśvarūpa, composed in 4933 Kali Era a work called the Āgama-tattva-saṁgraha (6215) of which the only known MS., a mere fragment, belongs to the Society. From the meagre account given in the work it is gathered that Keśava was born in a Mahārastra family though he lived in Southern India near the river Tungabhadrā. He has. referred to his Guru Kşemānandanātha and his Paramaguru Mādhavānandanāthal, who were respectively authors of the Saubhagya-kalpalatika 2 (6339) and the Saubhāgya-kalpadruma (6338).
KRSNAMOHANA.
Kršņamohana, a Kāyastha of Pūrvasthali (in Western Bengal), was the author of eighteen works 3, of which some are mentioned by name in his Niti-sataka 4 and the Kamalodaya 5. He appears to have been a man of wealth who engaged learned men to write books for him. It is definitely recorded that he got the Agama-candrikā compiled by renowned learned men 6. Of his works
1 Another grand-disciple (disciple's disciple) of Madhava seems to have been the author of a work called the Saubhāgyānanda-sandoha---a commentary on the Paramūnanda-tantra on which the work of Madhava himself was based (Introductory verses to Saubhāgya-kalpalatikā).
2 A work of the same name is twice referred to in the Catalogus Catalogorum (I. 738; II. 177) without mentioning the name of the author.
3 ASB., VII. 5509. 4 ASB., VII. 5508. 5 VSP., Intro., p. xxvi. 6 ASB., VIII, 6209.
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