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He has written a Tīkā on Visesã, a com. on an Agama (and there on p. 416 he has styled this Visesa as vārtika). Thus his work is a super-com. on an Agama. In this work he has neither referred to Haribhadra Suri nor to any work of his, even when he had a chance to do so on pp. 142, 237 and 876. So Anandasagara Sūri infers that either Kotyācārya must be his predecessor or his contemporary. On pp. 978-980 there is an exposition of jñāna and kriya-naya, and it tallies with one occurring in Haribhadra Suri's com. (pp. 488b-490a) on Avassaya. This coincidence may be due to both of them borrowing from Jinabhata's com. on Avassaya. Kotyācārya has referred to the Mulaṭīkā of Avassaya in several places e. g. pp. 609, 674, 675, 793, 846 and 855, and this Mulatika appears to be none else than that of Jinabhața whom he even mentions. Kotyācārya has hardly mentioned the name of Jinabhadra Gani Kṣamāśramana but has mostly referred to him by honorifics. This may be owing to his being a grandpupil or so. For, he cannot be his direct pupil as can be inferred from the following line occurring on p. 224:
" भाष्याननुयायि पाठान्तरमिदं......न चेदं भूयसीषु प्रतिषु दृश्यते. "
So he may be Jinabhadra's grand-pupil or So1. He is referred to as an old commentator by Maladharin Hemacandra Suri în
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Prof. H. D. Velankar in his Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskṛta and Prakṛta MSS. in the Library of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (vols. III-IV, p. 396; No. 1520) says: "According to Hemacandra, Jinabhadra himself with Kotyācārya had written a com. on his own Bhāṣya. But I take this to be a slip. It may be that his view is based upon the following line quoted by him in No. 1553 from the Catalogue of Mss. at Jesalmere (p. 19):“जिनभद्रगणिक्षमाश्रमणप्रारब्धा समर्थिता श्रीकोट्याचार्यवादि (हरि) गणिमहत्तरेण० ".
The full quotation is given as under at the end of a Ms. of a com. on Visesăthe Ms. which is dated as Samvat 1491 and which is noted on p. 246 of A Descriptive Catalogue of Mss. in the Jain Bhandars at Pattan:
“ सूत्रकारपरमपूज्यश्रीजिनभद्र गणिक्षमाश्रमणप्रारब्धा समर्थिता श्रीकोट्याचार्यवादिगणिमहत्तरेण श्रीविशेषावश्यकलघुवृत्तिः
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The word af ln the 1st quotation seems to be added by the late Mr. C. D. Dalal, who probably thought if to be a misreading for . If so, it is wrong. Prof. Velankar seems to have taken this quotation as coming from the pen of
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