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the author of the Sukrita-Sankirtana, a work in eleven cantos, containing valuable information about the history of Gujarāta, and describing important pious and religious works of Vastupāla. He was a follower of Jina or Siva.
Amarachandrasūri, pupil of Jinadattasūri, was the author of the Chaturvimsatijinacharita or the Padmānandābhyudaya, the Bālabhārata, the Kāvyakalpalata parimala, the Kavikalpalata, Kavi. sikhāvritti, Alankāraprabodha. Chhandoratnāvali Suktāvali and Kalākalāpa. He was very popular among the Jains as well as non-Jains and composed poems on the spur of the moment. He found favour at the court of Visaladeva.
Balachandrasūri was a Brahmin of Modheraka (modern Modbora, in the Mehsana District). His father's name was Dhuradova and mother's name Vidyut. Before he entered the order of Jain monks, be was known as Munjāla and trained by Rajaguru Padmiditya. Once he heard a sermon of Haribhadrasūri and cultivated regard for Jainism. After some training, he entered the order of Jain monks with the consent of his father and came to be known as Balachandra. In the
(6) Bhandarakara, IV, 6; Velanakara, Nos. 60, 131 and 1759; Buhler, IV, No. 287. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
