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kara of the Jains and was completed in the reign of Jayasimbadeva. In V. Samvat 1185 ( A. D. 1128-29), he wrote a Vivarana on the Prasamarati of Umāsvāti in Anabilavāda. Tradition puts to his credit the biographies of twenty-four Tirthankaras, but the Chandraprabhacharitra, the Mallināthacharitra and the Neminathacharitra only are available to us. The last work was completed in S. 1216 (A. D. 1159–60 ) in the reign of Kumāra pāla. Haribhadra's works give us valuable information about the Jain ministers of Gujarāta. 80
Jinośvara composed the Mallināthacharitra in Prākrita in V. S. 1175 (or A. D. 1118-19). The work deals with the life of the nineteenth Tirthankara of the Jains.81
Vijayasinhasūri was a pupil of Santisūri who was a pupil of Nemichandra in the Chandragatchba. He was the author of the Srāvakapratikramanasūtrachurni in V. Samvat 1183 (A. D. 1126-7). The work contains 4500 verses.82
Dharmaghoshasūri was a pupil of Silabhadra. sūri cf Rājāgatchha. He composed the Dharma
80 Gandhi, “Siddharāja and Jains", Nos. 40-41. Haribhadra's Kshetrasamaravritti was completed in Ansbilavāda in A. D. 1128-29. 81 Desai, loc. cit., p. 250. 82 Peterson, V, 22. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
