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JAINA CELEBRITIES IN THE VIJAYANAGARA EMPIRE 379 Another “son” of Bommarasa seems to have been Terakaņāmbi Bommarasa, the author of Sanatkumāracarite and Jivandharacarite (A.D. 1485). An interesting fact is mentioned by him in his works. This relates to Vādībhasimha Nemicandra, one of the gurus of his teacher's preceptor's guru. It is said that Nemicandra won a certificate of victory in the assembly of learned men in the court of the Vijayanagara monarch Deva Rāya II.1
About the year A.D. 1500 Kotīśvara composed his Jivandharaśațpadi at the orders of his royal master king Sangama of Sangītapura. Kotīśvara came of a good stock. His father Tammaņa śețți was the general of the city of Baidūru (mod. Baindūru) in Tuļuya, and his mother Rāmakka. And he was the son-in-law of Kāmaņa Sețţi, the royal merchant of the court of Sangītapura. His preceptor was Prabhācandra, the disciple of Panditayogi of Belgoļa. Two more Jaina writers may be assigned to the same age (A.D. 1500)
-Yaśaḥkīrti, who wrote a commentary on Dharmaśarmabhyudaya, and who was the disciple of Lalitakirti, and Subhacandra, who wrote Narapingali.?
More famous names appear in the sixteenth century A.D. In A.D. 1508 we have Mangarasa, who has already figured in connection with the history of the Cangāļva kings in the Vijayanagara age.4
The celebrated Vādi Vidyānanda seems to have written a
1. Kavicarite, II, pp. 128-130.
2. Ibid, II, p. 145. The late Mr. Narasimhacarya wrote on the strength of an inscription found at Biļige, that Srutakirti was the preceptor of king Sangama.
3. Ibid, II, p. 172. 4. Ibid, II, pp. 179-188, op. cit.
