________________ xxiv composed two auto-commentaries on his work, one of which was longer (brhat) 89 Another Vamana (last quarter of the 8th and the first quarter of the 9th cent. A. D.) has composed a Linganusasana (LV) containing only 33 karikas. It is the shortest one, and is intended to be so by the author himself. It is accompanied by the author's auto-commentary. The work was published in 1918 in the Gaekwad's Oriental Series (No. VI) and edited by Chimanlal. D. Dalal, who assumes that this Vamana was the author of all these works, viz., the Kavyalankara-sutra-vrtti, and the Linganusasana and perhaps the Kasika, as a grammarian, poet, and rhetorician all combined, and that at first he had been at the court of Jayapida and later on at the court of the Rastrakuta Emperor Jagattunga (779-808 A. D.)". 4.6. Durgasimha (7th cent. A. D.) was the one of the commentators of the Katantra Vyakarana and probably the first to systematically explain and amplify the Katantra grammar so as to make it as thorough-going as possible, without running counter to its original object of ease and simplicity92. There was another Durgasimha, the author of the Linganusasana, and of a commentary on the Durga-vrtti of Katantra, whose probable date has been fixed between 900 and 950 A. D. by D. G. Koparkaro3. There is seen a close similarity between the Linganusasana of Durgasimha with that of Sakatayana, and a careful comparision of the two creates the impression that either Durga must have borrowed the material from sakatayana without acknowledgement or both of them must have used some common original. That the former of the two alternatives is correct may be concluded on the grounds that the whole bulk of multi-gendered words covers 20 verses in S, while Durga requires 26 verses for the same, and that there are several verbal similarities between them and in most of these Durga appears to be improving upon the less systematic matter of S. Du, thus, appears to be indebted to $94. 5. Buddhisagarasuri : Life, Date and Work 5.1. The Jaina authors are generally very particular in recording the day, the fortnight, the month and the year, as also the place in which they finished their particular work, and at times they provide in the Prasasti at the end of their work some information regarding their monastic tradition. But further details about their pre-monastic life, we have to lean upon secondary sources like the Prabandhas, the Gurvavalis and the works of contemporary or subsequent authors. Thus, we come across a brief account of both the preinitiation as well as the post-initiation period of the life of Buddhisagara and
