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" श्रीमत्परमगम्भीरस्याद्वादामोघलाञ्छनम् । जीयात् त्रैलोक्यनाथस्य शासनं जिनशासनम् ॥"
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Vol XVI No I
ARRAH (INDIA)
June 1950.
JAINA GURUS OF THE NAME OF POJYAPADA.
By (Shri Jyoti Prasad Jain, M.A., LL. B., Lucknow).
Pajyapada is one of the most celebrated names not only in the annals of Jaina history and literature but also in the field of Sanskrit grammar. His Sarvärtha-siddhi is believed to be the first, and is atleast the oldest available commentary on the Tatwärtha-Satra of Uma-svåmi, which is the one Jaiva religious work that has perhaps the largest number of commentaries written on it; and Pajyapada's work has ever been regarded a most authentic and precise exposition of the very concise and pithy aphorsims of the original. The mystic mind of that great yogi (Pajyapada) finds a spontaneous and marvellous expression in his Samadhi-sataka. Whereas his grammatical masterpiece, the Jainendra Vyakaraṇa ranked him amongst the might highest and original authorities like Indra, Chandra, Sakatayana, Paniņi, Amara etc., in that highly popular branch of Indian learning. More than a dozen other works are also attributed to the name of Pajyapada, and there are several traditions and innumerable references in literature as well as in epigraphical records reaching back 10 as carly as the 7th century A. D., which tell us some thing or the
