________________ Introduction possibly be his preceptor. This date is further corroborated by the evidence of language, style and method which make the work difficult to be placed earlier than the sixteenth century A. D. 5. Manuscripts of and ot mention the name of Anantahamsa as the Name of the author. writer of the book in the colophon. The colophons cannot necessarily be taken to give a reliable evidence, but, because the writer of the colophon of the present work, i. e. the copyist, is not much removed in time from the author, it can be believed that he might have been familiar with a living traditional information about the authorship of the book which he liked to give in the colophon. Although the name of Anantahamsa is not actually mentioned in the concluding verse of the text which has mentioned only Hemavimala and Jinamanikya as the preceptor and the pupil, the compound जिनमाणिक्यशिष्यराजेन, if taken as a Groetaega compound, is capable of admitting the supposition of a further pupil of Jinamanikya whose name was Anantahamsa. The compound in that case can be dissolved as--PIACH: HTE: TFT sret Q: Wiferaturepti gi freerita: 91. Some
