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INDEX OF AUTHORS.
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Prithvichandra sûri -
Author of a Paryashanakalpatippanaka. He gives bis spiri. tual lineage as follows. In the Chandra kula there arose :
(1) Silabhadra. (2) Dharmaghosha. He converted the king of Sa.
khambhari. (3) Yasobhadra. (4) Dévasenagani. (5) Our author. 1, App. p. 69 (correct Dêvasena.
gani); 3, p. 17, App. pp. 15 and 307.
Přithvichandra sūri
Mentioned as in the line of Padmachandra in the Rajarshi gachchha, and guru of Prabhâpanda. No. 295 of the Cambay Palm-Leaf MSS., 3, App. p. 144, was written at the expense of certain sråvakas in Samvat 1391, who had listened to Prabhậnanda's teaching.
Prajnananda
Pupil of Prajnâsvarûpa. Author of a Tattvalokatikâ called Tattvaprakaśikâ. 3, App. p. 208. He is the author also of a
Triputi prakaraṇaţikâ. L. No. 163 (Aufrecht in C. C.). Prataparudra Gajapati
(“Son of Puroshottamadeva, grandson of Kapileśvaradeva, patron of Visvanathasena." Aufrecht in C. C.) Referred to by Sri Vidyâbhâshaņa. 2, pp. 10 and 99.
Pradyumna sūri
Of the Raja gachchha. Mentioned as the guru of Abhayadeva in that gachchha. His prowess in tarka is referred to. Using the medicine of his words he made his opponents sweat, and 80 cared them of the fevor of their pride. Reference is made to his victory over the Digambaras, by means of which he recovered for his own sect the city Venka. 3, App. p. 158. Eighth in ascent from Manikyachandrasûri, who wrote the Pârsvanathacharitra in Samvat 1276. He is said to have composed eighty-four books, and to have pleased by them the kings of Sapâdalaksha, Tribhuvanagiri, and other countries. Ib. p. 162.
