________________ Introduction is available. He wrote fyerere in Gujarati to which our present work bears much similarity. There are one or two Stotras in Sanskrit assigned to him, but their perusal does not lead to any definite conclusion. The internal evidence, which becomes useful in fixing the earliest limit, shows at the most that the author knew the Das'avaikalikasitra, the Sthanangasutra and the Upades'amala which are mentioned by name and from which passages are quoted. There are some Sanskrit stanzas quoted which are likely to be spurious; and, although they be taken to be genuine, nothing very useful regarding the date can bc inferred as the stanzas are more or less current Subhi ehitas which cannot be ascribed to any definite source. It can only be assumed that the Hemavimala mcntioned in the text as the Guru of the author is the same as the Hemavimala Acharya of the Tapagaccha (1492-1512 A. D.) who is said to be the 55th preceptor in the genealogy of the Tapagaccha. There is found the name of Jinamanikya among the Acharyas of the Kharatara Gaccha with 1525 to 1555 A. D. as his date as the Pattacharya of the Gaccha, but, he cannot possibly be the author of the present work, as, Hemavimala of the Tapagaccha could not
