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NAYAKUMĀRACARIU
श्रीजयसिंहदेवराज्ये श्रीमद्धारानिवासिना परापरपरमेष्ठिप्रणामोपार्जितामलपुण्यनिराकृताखिलमलकलंकेन श्रीप्रभाचन्द्रपण्डितेन महापुराणटिप्पणके शतत्रयाधिकसहस्रत्रयपरिमाणं कृतमिति ।
From these extracts we learn that the author of the Mahāpurāņa-tippana was Prabhācandra Pandit, a resident of Dhārā who wrote during the reign of Jayasimhadeva. Obviously, this king is identical with Jayasimha of the Parmāra dynasty who succeeded king Bhoja on the throne of Dhārā, and for whom we have a copperplate grant of Vikrama Samyat 1112 equivalent to 1055 A. D. (Ep. Ind. III p. 86). This same Prabhācandra is, no doubt, the author of a commentary on the Prameya-kamala-martanda, which he wrote under Bhoja.
Unfortunately, I had no time to examine these voluminous works so closely as to find out where the author had explained the eighteen jätis, but it appears to me that the tippana on the Nāgakumīracarita was written by this same Prabhācandra about 1055 A. D. that is, less than a century later than the composition of the work itself. This gloss has been very helpful to me generally throughout the work and particularly in construing a few obscure lines and phrases. In all, it explains about two thousand words and phrases of the text mostly by giving a Sanskrit synonym or paraphrase. I have made full use of these comments in preparing the glossary and the notes.
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