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found also in the Setutattvacandrika where Kulanatha's gloss on the verse is anonymously reproduced. Nothing is known about this Śriharṣa, and it is difficult to say if he is identical with the commentator Harṣapala, quoted several times in SC.
In his gloss on Setu 10.35 Kulanatha remarks that the expression suragaja used in the verse is explained by some as Ganapati. His gloss on the verse is mutilated in our copy, but seems to be reproduced in full in SC where the rather peculiar explanation of the word is attributed to Śrīnivāsa, whom we have placed between 1150 and 1440 A. D. (see below). It is probable that Kulanatha had Śrinivasa in mind when he referred to the explanation mentioned above as that of kecit. He is thus later than Śrīnivāsa, but cannot possibly be placed later than the early years of the sixteenth century.
Kulanatha cites a Deśī lexicon different from the Desinamamala of Hemacandra. In his gloss on Setu 6.8 he cites a Desi lexicon which explains hittha as ashamed and affrighted. Hemacandra (DN 8.67) quotes in this connection Gopala, one of his predecessors in the field of Desi lexicography, who records these meanings of the word. The wording of Kulanatha's quotation is, however, somewhat different; and he seems to cite a lexicon other than that of Gopala. Another reference to a Desī lexicon seems to Occur in Kulanatha's gloss on Setu 6.38 3 In his gloss on 3.61 the Destkoşa quoted by him explains the word addhanta as ekadeśa, while the meaning assigned to it by Hemacandra is paryanta (DN 10,8).
1 सुरश्चासौ गजश्चेति सुरगजोऽत्र गणपतिरिति केचित् .
2 See Extracts.
3 See Extracts.
4 See Extracts.
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