[- § 70 Treatises Accessory to Katantra The next in succession comes Trilochanadasa, who is also cited by Bopadeva and by Vishala the commenta- tor on the Sarasvata. He may have come very soon after Vardhamana. His commentary is called Katantravrittipafi- jika, and from it we learn that the author was a Kayastha, the son of Megha and father to Gadadhara. Iilochanadäsa has been himself commented upon by Jhaprabhastri alis Jinaprabodha, by Kusala, by Ramachandra, and by other more modern wilters. Mahadera, the author of a commentary called Sabda- siddhi, a Ms. of which bears the date Samvat 1340, is chro- nologically the next writer whom we have to notice. As, however, there is very little known about him either from his own works or from those of others, we shall pass on to later writers. Of these we have already alluded to Durga or Dur- gātma, author of a commentary on Durgasaha's vritti, who has often been confounded with Durgasimha himself. An anonymous writer has written a Dhundhikä on the Kätantravritti, probably modelled upon a similarly named commentary on Hemachandra's Sabdanuśasana. No other commentaries on the Kätantra that could be definitely assigned to a period anterior to 1500 A. D., are now extant. See, however, $72. 80 70. Treatises accessory to the Katantra-We have already incidentally spoken above of the treatises accessory to Katantra. There are not many of them, and the majority of them are much later productions. The earlier ones are the Liñiganusāsana in 88 āryās by Durga, and the 1 He is not to be identified with the author of that name who wrote the Kaiaatrottaraparisi- shta to Sripatidatta's supple- & Fur particulare bent Jaapta. 13 Sk. Gr. 3 bodha soe Peterson's Report for 1896-92, Index; and Kielhorn's report for 1880-81, Ales, nos. 33 and 36. collection for 1660-61.
