 Shastri, and Dravidian scholar Zvelebil date it to c. 900.There is an opinion that Shivakoti was not the author of the work, and that his Prakrit work "Bhagavati Aaradhane" may have been the inspiration for this Kannada writing.However, it has been pointed out that the author's name appears in the concluding section of every story in the writing, and that the Prakrit writer, also named Shivakoti, lived in the 2nd or 3rd century A.D. and was the disciple of Acharya Samantabhadra.