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is popularly known as the Aradhana-Kathakośass, written by Brahma Nemidatta in the 16th century; he was the disciple of Mallibhushana. His another spiritual predecessor was the great Vidyānandi. His work, as he himself says, is directly based on Prabhācandra's work. However, unlike the work of Prabbācandra, Nemicandra has written this in verse. There is, however, some difference between the works of Prabhācandra and that of Brahma Nemidatta. The total number of stories in Prabhācandra's work is 122, while that in Nemidatta's book, it is 114. Some 17 stories of Prabhācandra's work are not found in that of Nemidatta and nine stories of Nemidatta's text are absent in the work of Prabbācandra. 86
The Vaddaradhane 36 is a collection of Ārādhand stories in the Kannada language. It closely follows, as Upadhyes7 shows, the original Bhagavati Āradhāna. There is great controversy regarding its date, but that eminent authority would assign it to the 11th century A.D. All the stories, told in this work, are found with slight variation, in the work of Harishena (Nos. 126-144). It begins with the story of Sukumāra and ends with that of Vșshabhasena and has, therefore, altogether nineteen stories. There is a balanced proportion of Sanskrit and Kannada words in this work and it has been conjectured that the author was probably using a Prakrit commentary of the original Aradhanā. It has further been shown that the author was acquainted with the Varāngacarita, the Uttarapurāna and other wellknown Digambara texts. The prose style of this work appears to Upadhye, as later than that of the Cavundaraya Purāņa.
The celebrated Digambara poet Vādirāja lived in the first half of the 11th century. He has written several works, including the famous Pārsvanāthacarita and the Yaśodharacarita. He was also a great scholar on logic and other related subjects. He belonged to the Nandisangha and his guru was Matisāgara, who was the disciple of Sripāladeva.
