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(i) Acārya Nemicandra himself refers, in his own peculiar way, to this fact in gahā 397 of the Gommațasāra (Ka. Kā.): jaha cakkena etc. As the Cakravarti conquers the 6 parts (of the Bharataksetra) with his Cakra without any hindrance, so the six-fold (Scriptiral Work) has been duly mastered by me with the Cakra of (my) intelligence. (ii) And his epithet (Siddhanta Cakravarti) appears to have accrued from this statement. Brahmadeva has commented in Sanskrit on the Dravya-samgraha and Madhavacandra on the Trilokasāra and the Labdhişāra. Manuscripts of Kannada commentaries on the Dravyasangraha and the Labdhisāra by Kesavavarni and Balacandradeva are noted in the Kannada Prāntiya Tadapatriya Granthasūci, Bhāratīya Jñanapitha, Kashi 1948. Pt.J.K.Mukhtar holds that a number of other commentaries on this great work, possibly written during the past few. centuries, have not come down to us. Vide op. cit., p.91. Vide Sivatattva Pradipikā on Gommatasāra : Its author and date, Indian Culture, Vol. VIII-I, 23-33. As noted by R.Narasimhachar in Kavicarite Vol.1, Bangalore 1923, pp. 46-49. Ibid. Jaina Sāhitya Aur Itihasa, Bombay 1956, p.269. Op.cit., pp.90-91. Editor's translation of gāhā 972, S. B. J. Vol. X, Lucknow, 1937. Op.cit., p.91. On p.6. Could any one of these turn out to be with a vrtti or chāyā of Cāmundarāya?
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