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IS Nandi
At the end of ullasa IL, we have
श्री काव्यप्रकाशटीकायां सारदीपिकायां वाचनाचार्यकृतायां द्वितीय उल्लास । arater is attached to the name of the author even in colophone at the end of ollasas 111, which has-vacanacaryagunaratna-kptayam and also Ullisa IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX
Gunaratna's preceptor was Vloayasamodragani who is also mentioned in a stanza (
V 3) at the start of his work, which reads, विनयसमुद्रगुरूणां पादाम्भोजप्रणामपुण्येन । मनसा परोपकारे प्रवृत्त्यस्त्येव मे नित्यम् ॥
The author read many commentaries on the K P as mentioned by him in Y 5 10 the beginning of his work wherein be says blokya dloudhaḥ fika. There, he also says that he studied the KP right from his preceptor adhitya ca guror mukhat H18 preceptor Vibayasmudragani was a desciple of Śr Jinamapikyasarl of the Kharataragaccha Gunaratna was & Jalna monk from Gojarat-Rajasthan He bows to some Srimad Gosvamin in the beginning of his work (V 1) and also to Parsvanatha (V 2), obviously the Jalna Tirthankara
As for bladato, we may safely conclude that he lived earlier than the second half of the 17th century, as is borne out by the date mentioned In the me as year 1742 Samvat That the date mentioned on the me is not the date of composition, but the date of the copying of the ms, could be easily made out by the fact that the colophon at the end of of the ullasa x reads the samvat year 1742 after the word, 'sampurna' If It were to be found in betwoen 'It' and 'sampurna' It could have beon safely taken by us as the date of composition Thng Gunaratna could be Bill earlier Prof Hiralal R Kapadia in his, Jaina Sanskrta Subityano Itihasa", part I, Edo 156 AD, (Sri Muktikamal Jalna Mohana Mala, Puspa -58) mentions (PP 88) samyat 1610 (R) as the date of our author, though he does not quote any source for his information and does not look quite certain of it either Ho also mentions there, that Gunaratna composed this work for the benifit of his desciple Ratnavigala This also is not supported by any relevant reference from any source But the piece of informatiou 19 interesting none the less However, we do not know anything about this from the present work, nor anything more about the exact date and other works of our author, who sooms to bo & very well-read man as 18 seen from thọ study of the shaping influences which follows
