[1][2] Acharya Amritchandra was a Digambara monk who lived in the tenth century (Vikram Samvat).

[3] Another major Jain text that deals with householder's conduct is Ratnakaranda śrāvakācāra.

Like all Jain texts first verse (śloka) of Puruṣārthasiddhyupāya is an invocation:Victory to the Supreme Effulgence (Omniscience – the infinite and all-embracing knowledge) that images, as it were in a mirror, all substances and their infinite modes, extending through the past, the present, and the future.

[5]Puruṣārthasiddhyupāya deals extensively with the Jain concept of ahimsā (refraining from causing harm) particularly in reference to its observance as a minor vow (anuvrata) by the śrāvaka.

Eleven verses (79-89), cautions the householder regarding certain misconstrued notions that people put forward to justify their acts of himsā.