The colophon of all manuscripts have no details about the author, but according to some scholars the poem was composed by Muni Deva, uncle of Someshvardeva, the royal priest of last Chaulukya king Vastupal.
This assumption is based on the discussion in Girvan Vasantiki (Descripation of Spring in Sanskrit Literature).
The last verse (Munja vayan ini thai) of the poem referenced to Munja also support this hypothesis.

The fact is uncertain that whether the writer of this poem was a Jain or non-Jain.
No mention found in any of the manuscripts.
After analyzing the opinions of other scholars and considering the evidence provided by the text itself K. B. Vyas concluded that this is not the work of a Jain, but probably of someone belonging to one of the Brahmanical sects.
He sets the date of composition somewhere around V.S. 1400-1425 (1343- 1368 A.D.), basing his decision upon the orthography of the manuscripts and his comparison of the phonology and the morphology of the text with linguistic specimens from the different periods of Old Gujarati.
The colophon of all manuscripts have no details about the author, but according to some scholars the poem was composed by Muni Deva, uncle of Someshvardeva, the royal priest of last Chaulukya king Vastupal. This assumption is based on the discussion in Girvan Vasantiki (Descripation of Spring in Sanskrit Literature). The last verse (Munja vayan ini thai) of the poem referenced to Munja also support this hypothesis.
The fact is uncertain that whether the writer of this poem was a Jain or non-Jain. No mention found in any of the manuscripts. After analyzing the opinions of other scholars and considering the evidence provided by the text itself K. B. Vyas concluded that this is not the work of a Jain, but probably of someone belonging to one of the Brahmanical sects. He sets the date of composition somewhere around V.S. 1400-1425 (1343- 1368 A.D.), basing his decision upon the orthography of the manuscripts and his comparison of the phonology and the morphology of the text with linguistic specimens from the different periods of Old Gujarati.
Vasantavilas