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Swami Samantabhadra. Let it be assumed, and it is right to assume, that the Dandīkavi-prashasti-stuta Śrīvardhadeva and Tumbulūra-ācārya were both the same person, then we have no hesitation in saying that the scholar who is presented in the Śruta-avatāra as succeeding Tumbulūra-ācārya is not correct; because from the above-mentioned verse of Dandī, Śrīvardhadeva appears to be a contemporary scholar of Dandī, and Dandī was a scholar of the sixth century CE or the seventh century Vikram era. * In such a situation, Śrīvardhadeva cannot be a scholar before Samantabhadra in any way; rather, he appears to be a scholar several centuries later.
The founder of the Gangarājya, Siṃhanandī. (c) There is a very large Kannada inscription numbered 35, found at the Hūmcha place in the Nagar taluk of the Shimoga district, which is written in the Śaka year 999 and has been published in the eighth volume of the Epigraphia Karnāṭika. From this inscription, it is known that after Bhadra-bāhu Svāmī, the entry of the Kali-yuga took place here - its era began - the Gaṇa-bheda arose, and then in their lineage, Samantabhadra Svāmī attained prominence, who was 'Kali-kāla-gaṇa-dhara' and 'śāstra-kāra'. In the lineage of Samantabhadra's disciples, the first was 'Śiva-koṭi' ācārya, after him 'Varada-ācārya', and then the author of the 'Tattvārtha-sūtra'
* See 'Inscriptions at Śravaṇa-belagola' edited by Lewis Rice, pages 44, 135; and 'Weber's History of Indian Literature', pages 213, 232.
1 In the Malliṣeṇa-praśasti, Āryadeva is written as 'Raddhānta-kartā' and here 'Tattvārtha-sūtra-kartā'. From this, it appears that 'Raddhānta' and 'Tattvārtha-sūtra' are both names of the same text.
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