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kumāracarite and Kāvyādarśa, has praised Śrīvardhadeva in a couplet: 'Śiva bore the Ganga on the tip of his matted hair. O Śrīvardhadeva ! you bear Sarasvati on the tip of your tongue!' [EC. II (R) 67.1129] Appreciation of Dandi establishes that Śrīvardhadeva was a great poet of reputation and that he lived in the beginning of the seventh century.
An inscription of AD 1163 [EC. V (R) TN. 38(III TN 105), AD 1189 Joḍi-Basavanapura, pp. 432-36] has referred to Cūḍāmaṇi as a wise author of a poem called Cūḍāmaṇi, an exhibitor of all the ornaments of composition; and the names of Akalankadeva and Indranandi follow the name of Cūḍāmani, which suggests that Cūḍāmaṇi is an earlier work. Cūḍāmaṇi-sevya kāvya, mentioned in Śravaṇabelagola inscription and Cūḍāmaṇi-kāvya mentioned in Jodi-Basavanapura inscription are one and the same; evidently this Cūḍāmaṇi is a kāvya, a poem and not a commentary.
Jayakīrthi (c.1000) a Jaina author of Chando'nuśāsana, a Sanskrit work on prosody, dealing mainly with meters used in Kannada poems, has suggested that the work Cūḍāmaṇi consisted of some caupadis, quartets; 'Catuspadika Viditāsau Cūḍāmaṇau' (7.15); Therefore, Cūḍāmaṇi mentioned by Jayakīrti is the same Cūḍāmaṇi-kāvya of Śrīvardhadeva alias Cūḍāmaņi. It is the usual practice that the author getting the nomen of the work he has authored or viceversa. It has been suggested that the Cūḍāmani poem may be the same Cūḍāmaṇi, a classical Jaina poem in Tamil attributed to Tolamolideva alias Śrīvardhadevar who lived during the period of Vijaya, a Pallava (Kaḍvei) king (c. seventh century). Some have on the similarity of the name of the work Cūḍāmaṇi, tried to identify Tumbulūrācārya with Śrīvardhadeva, by mistake.
