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Amritchandra, in his commentaries on scriptures based predominantly on the transcendental point of view (niśchaya naya), did not ignore the doctrine of the manifold points of view (anekantavāda)... Achārya Amritchandra's three commentaries on Achārya Kundkund's Samayasāra, Pravachanasāra, and Panchastikāya, touch the reader's heart by expounding the true import of these profound scriptures. While his commentary on Samayasāra elucidates the true meaning of the text, his composition of Samayasāra Kalasa has, as it were, mounted a sacred urn (kalasa) on it. The seed of spiritual advancement that Achārya Kundkund had sown, Achārya Amritchandra helped it sprout, flower and mature... Puruşārthasiddhyupāya is Achārya Amritchandra's most widely read original writing. It is a matchless composition that deals with the conduct required of the householder (śrāvaka). Not only its subject matter and style remarkable, its language and poetic excellence matches the most stringent literary standards. In no other text that deals with the conduct required of the householder we see the same treatment of complex matters such as the transcendental and the empirical points of view, cause and effect relationships, and injury and non-injury, maintaining throughout the spiritual slant. Āchārya Amritchandra single-handedly transformed the gold minted by Achārya Kundkund into invaluable, pristine ornaments. Through his unparalleled and demystifying commentaries on the writings of Achārya Kundkund, Achārya Amritchandra, after one thousand years, revived, for the people of the world, the magnificence of Achārya Kundkund.
Nemichandra Siddhanta Chakravarty, the celebrated author of scriptures including Dravyasamgraha, Gomattasāra (Jivakānd and Karmakānd), Trilokasāra, and Labdhisāra, was among the most distinguished of the Jaina Achāryas, who lived around the eleventh and twelfth century CE.
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