Operation In Search of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Mumbai Circle 4

Author(s): P Piterson
Publisher: Royal Asiatic Society

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INDEX OF AUTORS.
Amara suri
Mentioned among the yugapradhanas. 3, App. p. 308.
Amalachandra gani
Wrote at Broach in Samvat 1158 the first copy of Devabhadrasûri's Kathâratnakośa. 3, App. p. 141.
Amitagati
Author of the Dharmapariksha. He was the popil of Mâdhavasena, who succeeded Nemishena, who succeeded Amitagati, "gañanatha," who succeeded Devasenn, who succeeded Virasena, "śr'i-mathuraņâın yaminâ in garishthah." All these writers were . Digambara Jains. 3, p. 11; App. p. 294. Amitagati's name is known as the anthor of tbe Subashitaratnasandoha, a book written in Samvat 1050. Bhandarkar's Report, 1882-83, p. 45. In a manuscript bought for Government this year the date of the Dharmapaiîkshâ is given as “ Samvatsarâņain vigate sahasre samaptatau (sic.' correct sasaptatau) vikramaparthivasya." Our author is therefore to be identified with the anthor of the Subhâshitaratnasandola. For the description of Vîrasena as head of the Mathura ascetics' see Weber's .notice of the Dharmaparikshâ, II. p. 1110, and the passage referred to there at II. p. 182, where the sects of the Digambara Jains are said to be four: (1) Káshtitsangha, (2) Mûlasangla, (3) Mathurasangba, and (4) Gopyasangha.
Amțitachandra suri
Author of a Commentary on the Samayasära of Kundakundâ chârga. 1, App. p. 86: 2, p. 161. The name of the commentary is Atmakhyati. No. 1485 in this Report's Collection is a copy of text and commentary of this work. According to a Digamabara pattavali procured this year Amțitachandrasûri lived in Samvat 962, and wrote, besides his Samayasaraţika,
(2) Prayachanasaraţikâ. (3) Panchâstikayaţikâ. (4) Tattyârthasara. (5) Purushårt hasiddhyupâya.
(6) Tattvadîpika. No. 1458 in this Report's Collection is a copy of No. 2, and No. 1454 a copy of No. 5.