sentences:  Karlamangalam Srikantaiah, the editor of the first edition, claims that the work may have been composed around 800 AD.Dr Venkatachala Sastry, however, dates him and his work to the 15th century.He also claims that Kumudendu Muni belonged to a village called Yalavalli near Nandidurga in Chikkaballapura Taluk in Kolar district.