The editor says the great sage Jinasena composed the Pārśvābhyudaya poem, whose fourth canto,…

The editor says the great sage Jinasena composed the Pārśvābhyudaya poem, whose fourth canto, the description of the Lord's kaivalya, ends with a colophon calling the poem, 'enclosing the Meghadūta', the work of Śrī Jinasenācārya, supreme guru of Amoghavarṣa Parameśvara; this makes clear that Jinasena was Amoghavarṣa's guru. He cites in support the historian Prof. Saletore's Mediaeval Jainism, quoting in English that Amoghavarṣa I Nṛpatuṅga Atiśayadhavala (A.D. 815-877) was the next prominent Rāṣṭrakūṭa patron of Jainism; that Guṇabhadra's Uttarapurāṇa (A.D. 898) shows he was a disciple of Jinasena, author of the Sanskrit Ādipurāṇa (given as A.D. 783); and that Mahāvīrācārya, author of the Jain mathematical work Gaṇitasārasaṅgraha, relates that the monarch followed the syādvāda doctrine (Mediaeval Jainism, p. 38).

Why it is kept for review: The author's date (Amoghavarṣa's guru Jinasena).

इत्यमोघवर्षपरमेश्वरपरमगुरुश्रीजिनसेनाचार्य विरचिते मेघदूतवेष्टिते पाश्र्वामयुदये भगवत्कैवल्यवर्णनं नामं चतुर्थ: सर्ग: इत्यादि। इससे स्पष्ट हुआ है कि अमोघवर्ष के गुरु जिनसेन थे।