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(5) Sûra prabha predeceased Muniratna, and it fell to
this latter to appoint a successor to him. He put Jineśvara in Sûraprabha's seat, and appointed Jinasinha (the author of the praśasti) to be his own successor: then shone between these two teachers like Meru with the sun on one side and
the moon on another. Jinasinha adds the following details about the history of the book. Yasodhavala, Treasurer of a Chaulukya king, of the Srîmâla kula, adorned the city Vârâhî. (Cf. Râs Mâlâ ed. Bomb. 1878, p. 135.) His son was Jagaddeva, to whom Hemasûri gave the title Bâlakavi. Jagaddeva was one, and the best, of the sixteen śrâvakas whom Dharmaghosha appointed to correct those who were in his time destroying the Jain faith. If Sarasvati always carries a book in her hand, it is through fear of the questions this man may puzzle her with. In his time Muniratnasûri was the best of the famous teachers in Dharmaghosha's gachchha.
In the 21st verse the influence exercised by Maniratnasûri over two converts from Brahmanism appears to be referred to. The one was the Minister Nirnaya (?), son of the Chief Astronomer of King Kumâra (the Chaulukya king already referred to), and the other was Bhatta Sûdana. These two spent large sums in furthering the Jain religion.
It was at the request of the Minister Jagaddeva (called Bâlakavi) that Muniratnasûri wrote his Amamasvâmicharitra. Jagaddeva reminded him of the praise he had won for his poetry from the delighted pandits who were present on the occasion when he defeated Vidyâśivavâdin at the court of King Naravarmap, before his teacher Samudraghosha, in front of the great temple of Mahâkâla in Ujjayinî: and asked him to write a poem on the life of the coming Amamasvamin. The first copy was written by Sagarachandra, son of Udayarâja, who was son of Udyotana, of the Gûrjara vanía. The book was written in Samvat 1252 at Anahilla pâtaka. It was corrected by Kumara Kavi (Bâlakavi). After that it was read in the temple of 'Sântina tha, in the same city, in the presence of Sri Pûrņa pala (described as a great grammarian), Yaśaḥpala,
