The editor quotes a verse of the Kalyāṇakāraka in which the author says that Samantabhadra set…

The editor quotes a verse of the Kalyāṇakāraka in which the author says that Samantabhadra set out the whole eight-limbed science in detail, and that he has told it here in brief, as far as he is able, as the Kalyāṇakāraka, complete in all its subjects; the editor glosses that Samantabhadra treated it extensively in a work called Aṣṭāṅga, which Ugrāditya followed. He then laments that all these works are lost.

Why it is kept for review: The author's sources, as stated in the work and quoted in the introduction.

अष्टांगमप्यखिलमत्र समंतभद्रै: प्रोक्तं सविस्तरवचो विभवैर्विशोषात्। सं़ोपतो निगदितं तदिहात्मशक्त्या कल्याणकारकमशोषपदार्थयुक्तम्॥