The time of Ugrādityācārya

The editor dates the author: Ugrāditya cites the medical works of Pūjyapāda, Samantabhadra and other ācāryas presumed to be earlier than the sixth century, and the closing prose sentence and verse of the work say he proved the uselessness of meat in the assembly of Nṛpatuṅga Vallabha, whom the editor identifies, through the Uttarapurāṇa, the Pārśvābhyudaya, the Ratnamālikā and the Harivaṁśa Purāṇa, with the Rāṣṭrakūṭa king Amoghavarṣa I (accession Śaka 736, 815 CE), a disciple of Jinasena. Citing also the guru Śrīnandi named in chapter 25, Prof. Saletore and Rai Bahadur Narasiṁhācārya, he concludes that Ugrāditya lived in the 8th century of the Śaka era, the 9th century of the Vikrama and Christian eras.