A History of Indian Literature v2.c20.s3.18

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⁴ Akalaṅka lived during the reign of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa-King Sāhasatuṅga Dantidurga, and Prabhācandra until the reign of Amoghavarṣa I. According to S. Ch. *Vidyābhūṣaṇa*, History of Indian Logic, p. 193 f., he lived in the 9th century A.D. See K. B. *Pathak* in JBRAS 18, 219 ff.; OC IX, London 1891, I, 186 ff., and Ann. Bh. Inst. 11, 1930, p. 149 ff. ; 12, 1931, p. 123 ff. There is an inscription, first edited by Lewis *Rice* in 1889, in Śravaṇa Belgola (Mysore) in which it is reported that an Ācārya by the name of Prabhācandra died the voluntary death of an ascetic on the mountain Kaṭavapra. The inscription is not dated, but on palaeographical grounds is said to be not later than 750 A.D., probably earlier. E. *Leumann* in WZKM 7, 1893, p. 382 ff., was the first to express the conjecture that this Prabhācandra and the Digambara author and logician are identical, and J. F. *Fleet* (Ep. Ind. 4, 1896-97, p. 22 ff.) agrees with him. A. *Venkatasubbiah* (JBRAS 3, 1928, 144 ff.), however, is right in saying that there is no proof of this identity. In Digambara Paṭṭāvalīs one Prabhācandra is mentioned with the date 396 A.D. and another with the date 1250 A.D.; see *Hoernle* in Ind. Ant. 20, 1891, pp. 351, 354. There are 4 or 5 different writers named Prabhācandra, s. *Hiralal*, Cat., p. xxviii.