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which he had acquired from studying the Yoniprābhịtaka and other works, had produced artificial horses.
In the Daśa-Cūrņi, ascribed to the same Jinadāsa, a passage refers to Siddhasenācārya's method of interpreting one and the same Sütra in various ways.
(6) Jinabhadragani, Višeşāvaśyaka-Bhāşya ( composed in 611 A.D.), discussing the main doctrines of Siddhasenas.
(7) Śivakoti, Ratnamālā ( of doubtful date ), mentioning as previous to Samantabhadra76 a 'Bhattāraka Siddhasena' among the sages whose blessings are invoked and thus corroborating the Svetāmbara Patřāvalīs in that point”?.
( 8 ) Mallavādin, Commentary on the Sanmati-tarka testified by Haribhadrasūri ( vide supra, Item No. 4). The work itself is not preserved. From the fact that Mallavādin also wrote annotations to Dharmottara's Commentary on Dharmakīrti's Nyāyabindu, he is assumed to belong to the 5th century of the Vikrama era78.
(9) The earliest reference re Siddhasena so far traced is that in Pūjyapāda's ( Devanandin's ) Jainendra-Vyākarana ( 5; 1; 7) of approximately 450 A.D. (more accurately: the beginning of the 6th Vikrama century )". This reference consists merely of the Sūtra 'vetteh Siddhasenasya', preceded and followed by similar Sūtras which refer to Bhūtabali, Prabhācandra, Samantabhadra, and other ancient Jaina authors. In view of the undeniable chronological as well as spiritual proximity of the latter to Siddhasena, it can safely be assumed that the passage refers to him, though, as Pt. Mukhtar and Pt. Premi point out, its exact interpretation would presuppose researches into the linguistic peculiarities of Siddhasena's works80.
( 10 ) To these Jaina references may be added the above referred to passage of Varāhamihira's Bșhajjātaka, where an astronomer author Siddhasena is mentioned. Varāhamihira was probably alive in Śaka Samvat 427 = A.D. 505, if not a century prior81
Though Haribhadrasūri's and Jinadāsagani's way of referring to Siddhasena indicates that the latter was in their eyes a person
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