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Just as the *drishtivad* is described as a drop of water in an anga, similarly in the 104th gatha of the Shataka, it is described as a single *re* of the *karmapranad* *alaroopi*. Just as in the final gatha of the Saptaatika, the author, while expressing his own insignificance, indicates that whatever I, the one with little knowledge, have written as an error, let the one with much knowledge complete and state it. Similarly, in the 105th gatha of the Shataka, it is also directed that whatever I, the one with little knowledge, have said about the essence of *bandhavidhan*, let the one skilled in the method of *bandhamoksha* complete and state it.
In addition to this, in the above gathas, the words *hissand*, *appagama*, *appasuyamandam*, *pureunam*, *parikahantu* are also worth noting.
This similarity in both these texts is not accidental. Such similarity is seen or can be seen only in those texts which are authored by one person or are written based on each other. From this, it is inferred that it is very likely that the Shataka and the Saptaatika are the works of the same Acharya. In the *chuni* of the Shataka, Acharya Shivsharm is mentioned as its author. This could be the same Acharya Shivsharm who is considered to be the author of *Karmaprakriti*. Considering this, it is proven that *Karmaprakriti*, *Shataka*, and *Saptaatika* are all the works of the same author.
But when *Karmaprakriti* and *Saptaatika* are compared, it is not proven that both were written by the same Acharya. Because in both these texts, two opposing views are presented. For example, in the *Saptaatika*, the *anantaanubandhi chatushka* is described as *upshama prakriti*, but in the *upshaman* section of *Karmaprakriti*, the *upshama vidhi* and *antarakarna vidhi* of the *anantaanubandhi chatushka* are prohibited. Therefore, it seems impossible to be certain about the author of the *Saptaatika*.