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As I bow down to the pure, knowledge-filled Lord, my master, with my own devotion, I, the small Samantabhadra, will explain the eight thousand verses. . . . The second is called "Cikk Samantabhadra." The book mentioned in the list of the Jain Siddhanta Bhavan in Ara, under the name "Cikk Samantabhadra Stotra," is said to have been written by him. Upon examining it, it was found to be the same hymn that was published in the fourth ray of the "Jain Siddhanta Bhaskar" under the name "An Historical Hymn," and whose last verse gives the name of its author as "Maghanandi-vrati." From this, it appears that Cikk Samantabhadra is simply another name for Maghanandi. We have learned the same from a Kannada scholar from the Karnataka region. Varni Nemisagarji also informs us in one of his letters that "this name, 'Cikk Samantabhadra' or 'Lahu Samantabhadra,' is common here (in the south) for this Maghanandi." The word "Cikk" also means small or little. It is not surprising that the aforementioned Lahu Samantabhadra and this Cikk Samantabhadra are the same person, and that he is also called Maghanandi-vrati. A scholar named Maghanandi-vrati was a disciple of Acharya Amarakirti, and the first and last verses of the aforementioned historical hymn use the word "Amar" prominently. This suggests that he was possibly the Maghanandi-vrati who was a disciple of Acharya Amarakirti, and that he also remembered his guru in this hymn by using the word "Amar." If this is correct, then this Maghanandi-vrati or Cikk Samantabhadra should be considered a scholar of the fourteenth century Vikram era; because Maghanandi-vrati's disciple and Amarakirti's disciple, Bhogaraj, installed a statue of Shantinath Jineswar in Shaka Samvat 1277 (Vikram Samvat 1402), which is now in the office of the Raidugra Taluk, as is evident from the inscription on the statue. *
The third was Samantabhadra of Gerusoppe, who is mentioned in the Taluk Kopp, district Kadur.
* See "South Indian Jainism," Part Two, page 57.
x This is a special place in South India, also known as Kshemapur, which is described in detail in the 55th stone inscription of Sagar Taluk. Famous