Kavi Paramesvara Or Paramessthi

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Kavi Parameśvara Or Paramesthi
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- Then, still earlier, Civundarāya (978 A. D.) in his Adipurina (Bangalore 1928 ) clearly tells us that Kavi Paramesvara wrote a Trisasti salaki-purusa-purna:
चरितपुराणदोळोदने बरेंदर् बरदिक्किदर् त्रिषष्टिदालाका ---- । पुरुषपुराणमं कवि - परमेश्वररंतु जसके नोतुरुमोळरे ।।,
and in another context (p. 6), he declares that the mahi-puräna was composed formerly by Küci Bhattāraka and Srinandi Muni, aud that his work, namely, the Kannada Cavundaraya Purana only follows the compositions of Kavi Parameśvara, who is called jinagamatilaka, Jinasena and Gunabhadra:
विरचिसिदर मुन्ने महा - पुराणमं नेगळ्द कूचिभट्टारकरूं ।। परम श्रीनदिमुनी - श्वररुं तदनंतरं जिनागमतिलकर ॥ कविपरमेश्वरर् बरदुदं जिनसेनमहामुनीशरी - यवनिगे पेळ्दु माणे गुणभद्रमुनीश्वररेटदै पेठ्दु प - ल्लविसिदुदं त्रिषष्टिपुरुषप्रतिबद्धपुराणमं महो - त्सवदोंळे भव्यकोटिगरियल बरेदं गुणरत्नभूषणं ॥
Gunabhadra, at the end of his Uttarapurāņa (middle of the 9th century A. D. ) informs us that the Adipurāna composed by his teacher Jinasena was based on the gadya-kathi of Kavi Parameśvara:
कविपरमेश्वर-निगदितगद्यकथामातकं पुरोश्चरितम् ।
Jinasena (c. 837 A. D.) also respectfully mentions him as the compiler of the entire purina, possibly under the title Vāgarthasangraha:
स पूज्यः कविभिलोंके कवीनां परमेश्वर : । वागर्थसंग्रहं कृत्स्नं पुराणं यः समग्रहीत् ॥
Adipurāņa I. 60.
Besides these literary references, the Humch inscriptiont of 1077 A. D. mentions Kavi Paramasthi along with a host of Jaina teachers and authors.
. About Jinesena, Gupabhadra etc. see, Premi : Jaina Sahitya aura Itihisa, pp. 282, 497 ff.; also Hiralal : Dhavali, Intro. Amraoti 1939.
+ Epigraphia Carnatica VIII, Nagar No. 35.
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