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15th century A. D.: Nemichandra, a Jain author, wrote a legal treatise entitled Traivarnikāchara Atmat atua-parikshana, by Devaraja, Jain author; it deals with philosophy. Irugapa, the general of the Vijyanagar King Déva Raya I, another Jain Sanskrit author, wrote the metrical lexicon Nanārtharatnamala. His guru Śruta-Kirti (or Srutamuni) was author of RaghavaPardaviya.
P. 412.
19th century A. D, : the most prominent work rendered into Kannada was Jivandhara Charita Bbāskara (cir. 1485) gave one version; then Bommarasa of Terakanambi (c. 1485) gave a second one; and Kotiśvara of Tuluvadesa (c. 1500) gave a third one.
P. 414.
17th century A. D. : Bhattākalanka Deva's Karnataka Śabdānusascnum, written in 1604 A. D. is a work in Sanskrit though dealing with the grammar of the Kannada language. Vaiśyani ghantu, a medical lexicon by Chikkana Pandita, a Jain author who was patronized by Chikka Deva Raja Wodeyar..
Pp. 417-20. Undated works : Taträrthasūtra by the "illustrious Umāsväti",
otherwise called Padmanandi, the first in the line of Jain gurus, He was also known as Konda-munīśvara, who "acquired the power of moving in the air”. His another name Gridhrapinchhächārya. The earliest inscription in which he is named is dated in 1163 A. D. He is described as a successor of Chandragupta, the disciple of Bha Trabāhu, we may have to set down Umāsvāti to about the 1st century A. D. A commentary on this work Tatvārthasūtra) was written by Sivakotisüri, a successor of his, and disciple of Samantabhadra; he may be assigned to the 5th cen. A. D. Vrata-svarüpa by Prabhachandra; it gives the results of the observance or violation of some of the Jain vratas. GayatriVyakhyana is a Jain commentary on the Vedic verse called the Gayatri, which comes to the conclusion that the God invoked in it is none other than Jain. A commentary on Dhananjaya's Rāghava Pandaviya by Nemichandra, disciple of Devanandi, who again was the disciple of Vinayachandrodya Pandita. Srutakirti wrote with great skill the Raghava Pandaviya reading forwards or backwards. Nemichandra assigned to the 12th century, while Śrutakirti to the 15th century; the latter's disciple was Charukirti, the author of Säratraya and other works.
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