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178/The Rāṣṭrakūtas and Jainism
fiath in the early second half of tenth cent., Particularly during the transition period of the Raṣṭrakūṭas and Calukyas. Of his two eminent teachers, one was the illustrioius Ajitasēnācārya, royal preceptor of the Ganga dynasty. He had initiated Mārasimha to the act of sallekhanā. Ajitasena, first spiritual guru of C'Raya, figures prominently in a number of epigraphs.
6.6.2. Later, C'Raya shifted, once for all to Śravanabelagola where he settled till his death. Nemicandra siddhanti, who had migrated from Tamilnāḍu, became the eminent cleric who tutored C'Raya and imported the quintessence of syādvāda philosophy. At the request of C'Raya, Nēmicandra composed the illustrious Gommaṭasāra.
6.6.3. Nēmicandra, an opulent author in Prakrit, was proficient in Jaina āgamas. He had an access to the source and had throughbred with the redaction and exegetical literature. Nēmicandra, ponderous and generative author of many Prakrit works, refers to Kukkuta-Jina-Gommața founded by his noted pupil Camuṇḍarāya, on the summit of larger hill at Śravanabelagola in C. E. 982. The works of Nēmicandra include Gommaṭasara in two books, i.e., Jivakhāṇḍa and Karmakhāṇḍa, Dravyasamgraha, Trilokasāra, Labdhisara are authentic philosophical treatises in Prakrit.
6.6.4. Dravyasamgraha, is an abstract of the six substances which constitute the cosmos. It is a digest of the answers given by the learned author to the valid questions put to him by C'Raya, his prudent student. Nemicandra had thorough knowledge of mathematics which is very well reflected in his works. Nemicandra Siddhanti reiterates that by polluting the inherent characteristics of the soul are lost and as a consequence of it human beings are prone to suffer miseries. Therefore, Nēmicandra stresses the observance of
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