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All these are also found in the works of Pampa and Ponna composed a little earlier.
The author Vattakera is thought to be associated with one of the three places in Karnatak bearing similar names: (i) The modern Betgeri in Dharwar district. (ii) A part of Śravanabelgola, (iii) Some village near Karikal. Vide Jaina Sahitya Aur Itihasa, pp.548-49.
This work on Jaina cosmography was composed in Karnatak. Vide Pali and Prakrt. by Dr.A.N.Upadhye, Mysore University Special Lectures Series. No.9, Mysore 1965, p.3.
This huge work is mainly connected with the Jaina way of meeting death-the goal of each liberable soul. In a family like Camundaraya's, this work would have been one of adoration.
Camundaraya and his Literary Predecessors, J.K.U.Hum.IV, 1960, pp.125- 136.
Gommaṭasāra, Lucknow, 1927.
Noted from Ratnakarandaka Śrāvakācāra, Jivarāja Jaina-Granthamālā, Kannada No.1, Solapur 1960, p.252, fn.1. Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Vol. XII, Part III, 1931.
Mysosre University 1965.
The lists of words coming under all these categories are not claimed to be exhaustive.
The reading in the text is uparima which appears to be faulty. Gommaṭasara Jivakanda 601, contains this word as well as hetthima.
The reading in the text is (virasamstha) which is obviously
wrong.
All my references regarding this work are to the edition of Kittel, Mangalore 1920.
Vide Introduction to Ardhamagadhi, by Dr.A.M.Ghatge,
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