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to his unfinished work, the Adipura ; and his pupil Gunabhadra must have completed his Uttara pard, a only a few years later,5 He was far advanced in years, when after finishing the remaining chapters of the Idipurána, he undertook to write his own portion of the Mahapurana. And the use of the past tense rera with reference to Guņabhadra in the concluding prajasti?, written in the time of his pupil Lokasena, clearly indicates that the former had long been gathered to his fathers by Saka 820 (A.D. 898). It is obvious, therefore, that he wrote shortly after Saka 760, in the latter half of the ninth century.
As regards the date of the Triloka sära, we know that its author Nemichandra enjoyed the patronage of Chamundarâja (A.D. 778). This statement is confirmed by Nemichandra himself who, in the concluding prasasti of his Gomatasara, Karmakanda, ninth chapter, thus praises Châmundarâja
जम्हि गुणा विसभा गणहरदेवादि धिप ताणं ।
सो अजियसेणणाहो जस गुरू जबर सो राऊ। [वृत्तिः] गणधरदेवादीनां ऋद्धिप्राप्तानां गुणा यस्मिन्विश्रांताः सोऽनितसेननाथो यस्य व्रतगुरुः स राजा सर्वोत्कर्षेण वर्तताम् ।
सिधंनुदयत गयणि मलवरण मिचंदकरकलिया।
गुणरवणभूषणंबुहि मइवेला भरउ भुवनयलं ! [वृत्ति: ] सिद्धांतोदयाचले उदितनिर्मकबरनेमिचंद्रकिरणैर्वर्धिता गुणरत्नभूषणांबुधेश्चामुंडरायसमुद्रस्य ... मतिवेला भुवनतलं पूरयतु अथवा भुवने अतिशयेन प्रसरतु ।
In his Purana completed in Saka 700 Châmunaraja tells us that he was the disciple of Ajitasena and had the title of Gunaratnabhûşana. From Sravaņa Belgola inscriptions, we learn that Châmundaraja was the minister of king Rachamalladeva, an ornament of the Ganga dynasty, which was uplifted by the sage Simhanandin. This was the Ganga king
Rachamalla IV who was reigning in A.D. 977.10 These facts are also alluded to in the Sanskrit commentary on the Gomalasara, which opens thus
श्रीमवप्रतिहतप्रभावस्थाद्वादशासनगृहाभ्यंतरनिवासिसिंहाथमानसिंहनंदिनंदितगंगवंशललामराजसर्वज्ञाचकगणनामधेयभागधेय श्रीमद्राज(च)मल्ल देवमहीवल्लभमहामात्यपदविराजमानरणरंगमालासहायपराक्रमगणरबभषणसम्यक्त्वरवनिलयादिविविधगुणनामसमासादितकीमिकांसश्रीमच्चामुंडरायप्रभावतीर्णकचस्वा. रिंशत्पदनामसत्वप्रकपणद्वारेणाशेषविनेयजननिकुरंबसंबोधनार्थ श्रीमन्नेमिचंद्रसैद्धांत चक्रवर्ती .......... इष्टविशिष्टमेवताविशेषं नमस्करोति। s See my paper entitled Bhartihari and Kumârile', Journal B.B.R.4.8., Vol. XVIII, p. 213. • Coinpare Uttarapuriya, chapter 37
जिनसेमानुगायास्मै पुराणकवये नमः।
. गुणभद्रभदन्ताय लोकसेनार्थितांप्रये ॥ : Compare
प्रत्यक्षीकृतलक्ष्यलक्षणविधिविश्वोपविद्यान्तरात् सिद्धांताध्यवसानयानजनितप्रागल्भ्यवृद्धेद्धधीः। नानानूननयप्रमाणनिपुणांगण्यैर्गुणभूषितः
शिष्यः श्रीगुणभद्रसूरिरनयोरासीजगदिश्रुतः ॥ • Nagar Inscrip. 46, Epi. Car. Vol. VIII
त्रिलोकसारप्रमुख । प्रबन्धान ] [विरच्य सर्वान् ] भुवि नेमिचन्द्रः। विभाति सैद्धान्तिकसार्वभौम
चामुण्डगवाचितपादपनः॥ Mr Rice's Sranana Belgola Inscriptions, Introd., p. 34. * Mr. Rice's Myrore and coory, p. 47.
