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1 SIDDHASENA DIVĀKARA
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(6) Pajyapāda and Samantabhadra.
Pujyapada: In this context we are referring to Pujyapāda Devanandi not with a view to compare him with Siddhasena, but altogether from a different point of view. It is with reference to the date of these two authors. Pūjayapāda, in his grammar, has followed the method of Buddhist and Brahmin grammarians and has referred, with great respect, to the Ācāryas Siddhasena and Samantabhadra with a view to establish their pecul. iarly high position as Jaina Samskpta scholars. Now looking to these references it seems highly probable (if we take into consideration the time of Pūjyapāda ) that the Siddasena referred to by Pujyapāda' is nobody else than our present Siddhasena the author of Sanınati and Stutis and Samantabhadra is also that well-known Samantabhadra the Stutikāra. If our conjecture is correct both these authors must have flourished before the 6th century of Vikrama era. And looking to the nature of these references, by Pūjyapāda, of these two Stutikaras, it seems quite probable that these two authors were before Pūjyapāda and his works must have been greatly influenced by the works of these two famous authors.
Samantabhadra : The comparison of Siddhasena with Samantabhadra is more important than the
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1. sagen hangen 5. 4. 140."
: fahar 5. 1. 7. Jainendra Grammar,
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