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Time of Akalanka.
Prabhāchandra the author of Prameyakamalamārtanda has written : “As the subject as laid down by Akalanka could be understood only by the wise, the Achārya (Māņikyanandi) composed this Prakaraṇa to explain that subject quoting the same with the object of laying down the same and wishing to explain the same (to all)".
There are differences of opinion as to the time during which Akalanka flourished. In Ārādhanākathā-koşa (15th or 16th century A.D.), Akalanka is described as the son of the minister of Subhatunga the King of Mānyakheta. It is also mentioned that there was a discussion in the court of King Himasitala between him and the Buddhists. In the Mallişeņa · Prasasti in Sravana Belgola the latter incident is supported. It is also mentioned therein that Akalanka visited the court of King Sāhasatunga. Dr. Satish Chandra Vidyābhūşana has taken Subhatunga or Sāhasatunga as Krisnarāja I of the Rashtrakuta dynasty. Pandit Nathuram Premi following this view has mentioned that the time of Akalanka was from Vikram Samvat 810 to 832 (753 to 775 A.D.)3 Dr. K. B. Pathak holds the view
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___ 1. "श्रीमदकलंकार्थोऽ व्युत्पन्नप्रज्ञैरवगन्तुं न शक्यत इति तद्व्युत्पादनाय करतलामलकवत् तदर्थमुद्धृत्य प्रतिपादयितुकामस्तत्परिज्ञानानुग्रहेच्छाप्रेरितस्तदर्थafaurgagqui 976 Tofagarar: GTE 1" Prameya-kamala-mārtanda.
2. “Māņikyanandi was a Digamvara author... As his work is based on that of Akalanka, he must have lived after 750 A. D.... Māņikyanandi seems to have lived about 800 A.D.” History of the Medieval School of Indian Logic. Page 28.
3. Jain Hitaishi Bhāga 11. Page 428. Vide 37 tangan ८१० से ८३२ तक के किसी समय में जीवित थे।"
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