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INTRODUCTION.
of attachment for external objects and devoted to the enlightenment of liberable people. From this mention of Saratraya it appears that S'rutamuni is referring to Prabhacandra, the commentator. If so, the date of Prabhacandra can be settled. S'rutamuni with his teacher Abhayacandra is mentioned in S'. Belgola Inscr. No. 254 of 1398. A. D. which is written some generations after S'rutamuni. Then taking into consideration the Hulluhalli inscription of 1371 A. D., we find that it refers to the death of Abhinava S'rutamuni who was the grand-disciple (pras'isya) of S'rutamuni.3 So S'rutamuni might have flourished in the middle of the 14th century A. D. Balacandra who is the guru of Srutamuni is different from our commentator Balacandra. This Balacandra, to whom S'rutamuni refers appears to be the same as one referred to in Halebida Inscr. of 1275 A. D. which is the year of his death. I am aware that there was one other Balacandra of Ingales'varabali, who was living in 1282 A. D. At any rate these dates of S'rutamuni and Balacandra indicate that Prabhācandra flourished in the first quarter of the 14th century A. D. or so; thus his commentary comes later than that of Balacandra.
5. Mallişena and his Tīkā
THE MS. OF SO CALLED MALLISENA'S TĪKĀ.-It is reported that one Mallisena has written Sanskrit commentaries on Pañcāstikaya and Pravacanasara; but unfortunately the Karanja MSS. could not be available to me. In the absence of definite information about him, it is of no avail to try to identify him with one or the other Mallisena. When I was in a helpless mood, being unable to get the Karanja MS., Rao Bahaddur A. P. Chaugule, B. A., LL. B., Pleader, Belgaum, kindly handed over to me a MS." containing the Sk. commentaries on the three works of Kundakunda. With
1 The verse runs thus with my emendations in brackets;
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vara-Saratraya-nuno suddam parao (suddhappa-ravo) virahiya-par abhão(vo) | bhaviyanam padibohanalaro Pahācanda rama muni ||
2 E. C. III Nanjanagud No. 64.
3 E. C. II 254.
4 E. C. V Belur Nos. 13, 132; Karnataka Kavicarite vol. I, p. 391.
5 E. O. II 334.
6 Catalogue of Sh. and Ph. MSS. in C. P. & Berar pp. 663, 671.
It is a paper MS., 10 by 6 inches in size. It contains 394 folios written on both sides in neat Devanagari hand and some words and sentences here and there are written in red ink. Each page contains 14 lines and each line about 34 letters. 109 folios are levoted to Pancästikäya-tikā, 110-243 to Pravacanasan a-tila and 244-394 to Samayasāraha. Though the MS. is well preserved, some portion between 393 and 94 appears to be missing. On p. 108 we have the pras'asti ajana-tamasā lapto etc.' as printed ab the end of this edition of Jayasena's tika; strangely the sentence nrpa-Vikrama-samvat ||1369|| varsarās'vinasuddhr ||1|| Bhomadine intervenes between the first verse and the remaining portion of the pras'asti. Pravacansara-tila ends with the colophon 'S'ri llisenācārya krtā tikā bhadram bhūyat' in which Ma appears to be missing after S'ri. At the end of Samayasara-tikā, on folio 394, we have scribes' colophons the first in Devanagari and the second in Kannada script. S'ala 1692 Vilrta-nāma-samvatsare Samrat 1827 Asāḍha-mase s'ulla-pakse das'ami-tithau Sva(m )t-naksatre Somavasara-siddhayogayukte Sri-Bedalihala-gramila-Säntappa-satputra-Bhujabalina sva-jñānāvar aṇiya-harma-ksayartham sva-hastena Prabhrtasara-nama-pustaham likhitam || S're Nandani-grume Adis'varacartyālaye || mangalam bhūyat || Sri Sumatı **s'isya-Bhuyabali-nūmadheyena s'ri samyaltra
