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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
of Süravijaya, (9) and Kalpabodhini, composed in Sam. 1788, by Nyayasagara, pupil of Uttamaaägara. The following are by the teachers of the Kharatara Gaccha-1) Mafijari, composed in Sam. 1685, by Sahajakirtigani and Srisära, both pupils of Hemanandanagani; (2) Kalpalată, composed before Sam. 1699, by Samayasundaragani, pupil of Sakalacandra; (3) and Kalpadrukalika, which was composed about the middle of the 18th century of the Vikrama era, by Laksmivallabhagani, pupil of Laksmikirti. All these 12 commentaries are quite exhaustive and give many stories, illustrating particular points in the text. In addition to the above-mentioned commentaries and Tippanas, we have a number of Antarvacy as or Antarviranas, which also are a sort of commentary, intended to explain the ritual in connection with the ceremony of the reading of the Kalpa Sutra
Samayasundara, the author of the Kalpalata which is published along with the text in the present edition, was a pupil of Sakalacandra, who was himself a prominent pupil of the famous Jinacandra Suri of the Kharatara Gaccha, who was greatly honoured at the Court of Emperor Akabar. Samayasundara was a learned and voluminous writer who lived and wrote in the second half of the 17th century of the Vikrama era. The earliest dated work of his is Bhavatataks, a small poem in a hundred stanzas composed in Sarb, 1641. The commentary on the Kalpasutra is not dated; but according to the Prasasti, it was
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