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century of Vikrama era.1 Mukhtara places him in the 8th century of Vikrama era.2
Amitagati (11th century A.D.) wrote a Samskṛta version of the gathās of Bhagavati Aradhana. Many of the Samskṛta verses of this versions have been quoted in the commentary of Anāgāradharmāmṛta by Pt. Aśādhara.
Pt. Asadhara (13th century A.D.) also wrote a commentary, Mūlārādhanādarpaṇa, on Bhagavati Ārādhanā. Premi has referred to two more commentaries, hitherto unpublished and preserved in Bhandarkar Research Institute of Poona.3 One of these tikās is Aradhana-pañjikā, whose author is not given in the commentary. Prabhācandra, author of Prameyakamalamartaṇḍa, also wrote an Aradhanapanjikā. If he is the author of Aradhanāpañjikā preserved at Bhandarkar Research Institute, then the commentary can be placed in 8th or 9th century A.D. The other commentary Bhāvārthadipikā, by Sivajilāla is ascribed to 1818 of Vikrama era. Mūlārādhanādarpana of Asadhara mentions a Prākṛta tikāR and a tippani by Sricandra and Jayanandis also on Bhagavati Aradhanā. All these commentaries have become extinct now.
4. Kartikeyanuprekṣā
Dr. A. N. Upadhye is of the opinion that Kartikeya came later than Kundakunda, Vaṭṭakera, Šivārya, Umāsvālī, Pujyapada and Joindu i.e. later than 6th century A.D., and he is even doubtful whether Kartikeya could have lived even after Nemicandra (10th century A.D.). Mukhtara has rejected gāthā number 279 of Kartikeyanuprekṣā as an interpolation and has refuted any possible influence of Yoganusāsana of Yogindu
I. Premi, Nathurama, Jaina sahitya aura itihasa, p. 79.
2. Mukhtara, Purātana Jaina vākya-sūcī, Sahārantura, (year of publication is not given), prastāvanā, p. 21.
3. Premi, Nathurāma, Jaina sāähitya aura itihāsa, p. 80-81.
4. Winternitz, A History of Indian Literature, Vol. II, p. 582, foot note 6.
5. Premi, Nathurāma, Jaina sahitya aura itihāsa, p. 82.
6. Asadhara on Bhagavati Aradhanā (Mūlārādhana), Solapura, 1335,4.526.
7. Ibid., 4.589.
8. Ibid., 7.1999.
9. Kartikeyanuprekṣā, (ed.), Upadhye, A.N., Agas, 1960, p. 69.
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