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'.........अह चोदसीए चित्तस्य किण्हपक्खांम। निम्मविया बोहकरी भव्वाण होउ सव्वाणं ॥
सगकाले वोलोणे वरिसाण सएहिं सत्तहिं गएहिं ।
एगदिणे गूणेहिं एस समत्ता वरण्हम्मि ॥ i. e. in शक era 700=V. S. 835=A. D. 778.
In the 12th stanza, in the beginning of the work, he says.
सो सिद्धत[म्मि] गुरू, पमाणनाएणं जस्स हरिभद्दो बहुगंथसत्थवित्थरपयड [समत्तसुअसच्चत्यो ॥
जो इच्छइ भवविरहं भवविरहं को न बंधए सुयणो ।
समयसयत्थगुरुणो समरामयंका कहा जस्स || • Thus it goes beyond doubt that हरिभद्र was the preceptor of uçatan in the study of canonical literature and logic. Now उद्योतन finished his कुवलयमाला in the later half of the 8th cent. and the must likely have flourished before the later part of the 8th century A. D.
This is the later limit about he's date. · The earlier limit of his date can be known from the citations of other authors or their writings in his innumerable works. Jinavijayaji draws up a list of 32 authors and two works वासवदत्ता and प्रियदर्शना the names of whose authors are pretty certain. ( His
