More than the subject-matter furnished in S.D. Alankara Sangraha gives some elements of Purvaranga and five varieties of gandam, a significant feature, of course the matter being adapted from Natya Sastra and other texts. Alankara Sangraha through small without any discussions on the topics is a fountain of Alankara Sastra in its essentials and furnishes the students a fund of knowledge. The value of the treatise is enhanced by the fact that it quotes numerous verses as illustrations composed by eminent authors, some- times from works such as Maricha Vanchana , Valivadha Udattaraghava, Nalavijaya and Deviparinaya which were in vogue in those times but are no longer extant. It appears from the selection of his example from different texts that the author must have been a versatile scholar, well acquainted with most of the eminent works in his days The Author, his time and works-His date. The author Amrtanandayogin states in the introduction that he wrote the book Alankara Sangraha at the instance of Manva Bhupa. Excepting the praise of this patron Manva, the author has not furnished any further personal details. No- where in the text did be mention his place and parentage, Being a philosopher, which is inferred from the name itself, be might not have furnished his personal details. As for the date of this work Alankara Sangraha , M.Krishnamachariar ha stated in his History of Classical Sanskrit Literature that king Manva Bhupa, son of Bhakti Bhupa, probably lived about 1250 A.D. ). Amrtanandayogin being a contemporary of the king may also be assigned to the same period. King Manva is said to be a devotee of Siva and in some texts the reading says that he is a devotee of Jina.
1. Page 106. lines 18-19 2. Page 119 18-21 Verses 92-109 3. Amrithanandayogin Alankara Sangaraha in 10 chapters is an extensive work writes at the instance King Manva son of Bhagti Bhupati who probably lived about 1290 A.D. ( Page 767.Classical Skt Literature ). 4. जिनपादाप्ऊषट्पद; Page 1.Alankara Sagraha
