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17.11 In brief, it should now be established clearly that neither Jinabhadra-gaņin, the bhāșyakệt, nor ācārya Haribhadra, the Yākini-mahattarā-sūnu, can be credited with the composition or the editorship of the MNA. Equally certain is the result arrived at by Schubring and others that the MNA owes its present form to one person who was zealous in his ideas and strong in his views but less competent to fulfil his task as far as the language and the metrics are concerned.
