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Sriramamurthi that Bhima Kavi was a contemporary of Raja Raja's father Vimaladitya[1]. This view was based on an incorrect reading of another verse which is also attributed to this poet and, in the Telugu preface, I have exposed the untenability of this reading. On the other hand, Rao Bahadur K. Viresalingam Pantulu thinks that our poet must be referred to the 14th century A.D.[2]. This view is sought to be supported by four verses which are all attributed to Bhima Kavi and three of which are assumed to belong to the present work. These latter verses really belong to a later work, Kavyalankara Chudamani of Vinnakota Peddanna and there is nothing reliable to show that the fourth verse was composed by Bhima Kavi. I have no hesitation, therefore, in rejecting both these theories[3].
We do not know much about Recha. His description as an ornament of the Sravakas, a disciple of Vadindra Chudamani and a friend of Jina Mata, shows that he was a Jain by faith and in two verses he is said to be a Komati or Vaisya by caste. He was evidently a patron of learning and like many of his class aspired to authorship.
This is the only book so far discovered, which throws any light on the connection between Jainism
