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a stotra and commentary on the Sanghapattaka and Samachāripātra. His dates are: birth, A. D. 1154, diksha, A. D. 1162, padasthapana by Jayadeváchârya in A. D. 1167 and death in A. D. 1221. According to tbe Tirthakalpa, Jinapati consecrated an image of Mahavira in Kalyan in A. D. 1177.91
Ratnaprabhasūri, pupil of Bhadreśvara who was a pupil of Devasúri of the Brihud gatch ha, was the author of a commentary on the Upadešamālā of Dharmadásagani. He also wrote a commentary on the Syadvádaratnākara of Devasūri. 94
Somaprabhasūri was a pupil of Jayasimhasūri who was a pupil of Devasūri of the Tapa Gatch ha. He was the author of the Sumatinātha charita, Suktinuktāvali, Satārthakāvya and Kumārcpālapratibodha.93
The last work contains an authentic account of the conversion of Kumārapala to Jainism. The work is of great historical value because our author was a contemporary of Kumāra pala
91. Peterson, IV, pp. XXXVI; Jain Itihasa, p. 106. 92. Jain Itihāsa, p. 105. 93. Desai, Jain Sahityano Itihasa, pp. 283-4.
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