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2 NCC I, 302. The author was a Digambara Jain (NCC; Rājkumār Jain, 1981: 88) or a brāhmaṇa (ABI 329; Ambālāl Jośī, 1981: 93). Atrideva and Jośī call the work Aśvavaidya, date it to about A.D. 1400, and add that the works of Candrarāja were Abhinavacandra’s model. Vardhamāna Pārśvanātha Śāstrī claims (Intr. to his ed. of the Kalyāṇakāraka, 39) that Abhinavacandra wrote his work not in Sanskrit, but in Kannaḍa. A.M. Shastri (1991: 114–115) says that Abhinavacandra’s Aśvavaidya was written in Kannaḍa, dates from about the fourteenth century, and was based on a treatise on aśvaśāstra attributed to the mythical being called Revanta.