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Swami Samantabhadra.
He has also written a commentary. In this text, through examination, he establishes the Arhantdeva as unique and worthy of worship with these epithets, and in the 120th verse, he gives the phrase "iti sankṣepato'nvayaḥ" and in its commentary, he writes:
"iti sankṣepataḥ śāstrādāu parameṣṭhiguṇastotra-sya munipungavai-vidhīyamānasyān-vayaḥ sampradāyā-vyavacchedalakṣaṇo padārtha-ghaṭanālakṣaṇo vā lakṣaṇīyaḥ prapancatas-tad-anvayasyākṣepa-samādhānalakṣaṇasya śrīmat-svāmī-samantabhadra-devāgamākhyāpta-mīmāṃsāyāṁ prakāśanāt...."
From all this statement, it becomes clear that Samantabhadra's Āpta-mīmāṃsā text called Devāgama is written about the nature of the Āpta as mentioned in the verse "mokṣamārgasya netāram". However, it is not yet clear which Niḥśreyasa (Moksha) scripture this verse belongs to and who its author is. Vidyānanda Ācārya, concluding the Āpta-parīkṣā, writes about this:
śrīmat-tattvārtha-śāstrad-bhutasalila-nidher-iddharatnod-bhavasya, prottānā-rāmbhakāle sakala-malabhide śāstra-kāraiḥ kṛtaṁ yat. stotraṁ tīrthopamānaṁ prathita-pṛthupathaṁ svāmī-mīmāṃsitaṁ tat, vidyānandaīḥ sva-śaktyā katham-api kathitaṁ satyavākya-ārtha-siddhyai 123
This verse only reveals that the aforementioned tīrthopamāna stotra, which Swami Samantabhadra has commented on and Vidyānanda has examined, was composed by the scripture authors at the time of the beginning of the rise - the elevation or enhancement - of the Tattvārthaśāstra, which is like a vast ocean of wonders. However, it is not clear who these scripture authors are. Vidyānanda, in the commentary of Āpta-parīkṣā, has referred to the scripture authors as sūtra-kāra and has written the aforementioned guṇastotra composed by those same munipungava, but their...