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scholar in the court of Sahasatunga: 'there was no other grandeur king like Kṛṣṇarāja alias Sāhasatunga on earth'. 4) Akalanka was a priest at Sravanabelagola from where he proceeded to the court of Himaśitala, a Pallava king of Kanci, and drove the Bauddha disputants to Kandy in Ceylon. While defeating the opponents, Akalanka proclaims that he did it out of clemency and not out of arrogance or malice:
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nāhankāra vasikṛtēna manasă
na dveṣiņā kēvalam kāruṇya buddhyā mayā
4.3.3.3. Scholars have agreed on one point, that Akalanka was a native of Manyakhēta and he lived during the sway of Sahasatunga Dantidurga Khaḍgāvalōka (C. 74256), Subhatunga Kṛṣṇa-I Akālavarṣa (C. E. 756-73) and his son Prabhutavarṣa Govinda-II Vikramāvalōka (773-80). Undoubtedly, Akalanka was a tarkkika, dialectician of unequalled eminence. He had challenged the vadis in a dialectical disputation at the court of Sahasatunga Dantidurga, who was ruling from his capital at Elapura (Ellōra).
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4.3.3.4. Akalanka has authored basic texts on varied subjects including Jaina epistomology, logic and metaphysics :
Tattvārtha - Rājavārthika a lucid commentary on Tattvärtha - sūtra of Umäsvāti, has made the latter more comprohensible.
2. Aṣṭaśati is an erudite and extensive gloss on Samantabhadradeva's Aptamimāmsā (Dēvāgama stōtra), an examination of the perfect teacher.
3. Siddhiviniścaya Pramāṇa-samgraha (with vivriti modelled on Dinnaga's Nyāyapraveśa and Pramāņa Varttika of Dharmakirti), still enjoy a highly venerated place in the learned circle.
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