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About the time the Buddhists had great influence in various courts of India and controversies between Buddhists on one side and Jains on the other were very common. Aryakhaputacharya and Upadhyaya Devendra his pupil were Jain Sadhus wellknown for their learning and accomplishments in magical lores. One Buddhist from Gudashastrapura, who was defeated by a Jain Sadhu in a controversy
before the King of Broach, died and became a malevolent spirit and began troubling the Jains. The services B of Aryakhaputacharya were requisitioned, and by his prowess he made the Buddhist Yaksha (spirit) do 18
his bidding and follow him out of the town. The king was thus won over, and the spirit gave up harassing
the Jains. Devendra similarly punished the jealous Brahmins in the Court of King Dahada at Patliputra by XI turning back the faces of the Brahmins by his magical prowess. When they promised to become Jain ascetics Bl they were released and the King thenceforth never insisted on the Jain Sadhus bowing to the Brahmin
householders. Both these preceptor aud pupil were respectively versed in "Vidya-Pahuda" and "Siddha-18 Pahuda". The author of the "Prabhavakacharitra" mentions that Padliptacharya acquired these magical lores
from Aryakhaputacharya. It also narrates that Rudradevasuri learned in the "Yoni-Prabhrita” (that is trea *tise on Medical Ingredients which when mixed in various manners produce various kinds of insects and animals), 18
and Shramanasinha learned in the Nimitta Shastra (that is the science of prophecy) were Padlipta's contemporaries who met and came in contact with him and Vidya-Chakravarti-Sovereign of Magical lores-Aryakhaputacharya and Siddha Upadlaya Devendra at Manakhetapura. Padlipta had acquired the flying-lore by applying medical ingredients to feet, and daily performed pilgrimage of the five sacred places including
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| SR No. | 600004 |
| Book Title | Nirvankalika |
| Original Sutra Author | Padliptsuri |
| Author | Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri |
| Publisher | Nathmalji Kaniyalalji Mumbai |
| Publication Year | 1926 |
| Total Pages | 138 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| Classification | Manuscript, Ritual_text, & Conduct |
| File Size | 6 MB |