Amritchandra
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Religion	Jainism
Flourished	10th century CE
Notable work(s)	Puruşārthasiddhyupāya

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Amritchandra (f. 10th-century CE) was a Digambara Jain Acharya who wrote commentaries on Samayasāra called Atmakhyati and Samaysar Kalasha, Pravachanasara and Pancastikayasara.^[1] He also wrote independent books of Puruşārthasiddhyupāya and Tattvartha Sara.^[2] He wrote in Sanskrit language.

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• Finegan, Jack (1952), The archeology of world religions, Princeton University Press
• Jain, Vijay K., ed. (2012), Acharya Amritchandra's Purushartha Siddhyupaya: Realization of the Pure Self, Vikalp Printers, ISBN 978-81-903639-4-5, This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.