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The Jaina Antiquary
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other about the Jaina guru (or gurus ?) who bore this name. own works are, however, silent on this point and give us practically no information about their author. Hitherto it has also been generally believed that there was only one Pujyapada whose real name was Devanandi and that all the references found under that name (i e. Pujyapada) point to him. But the fact that most of the more celebrated Jaina gurus, particularly those belonging to the first eight. or ten centuries of the Christian era, happened to have later on a number of their respective namesakes' pursuades us to examine the same possiblity in case of Pajyapila as well. And it is not at all surprising that an analysis and classification of all the available references pertaining to the guru or gurus of that name leave us with some twenty one apparently isolated and unconnected Pujyapadas:
(1) Pujyapada, the first and original Jaina savant of that name. His real name was Devanandi and he was also called Jinën trabuddhi He was a South-Indian Digambara lain saint and scholar belonging to Kundkunda's line of the Malasangha. There is absolutely no doubt as to his authorship of the Jainōndra Vyakaraṇa, the Sarvarthasiddhi and the Samadhi-sataka. He evidently came after Kundkuń, Umåsvāmi and Samantabhadra, and preceded Vaman, the author of the Kasika, also Gunanandi. Aklanka, Dhananjaya, Virsena etc. Thus he may have lived anytime between the third and the middle of the 7th centuries A.D. The majority of modern scholars, however, place him in the latter half of the 5th or the beginning of the 6th century A.D.3, while there are some who are inclined to place him in about the middle of the 7th century AD.
1 For example Bhadrabahu, Kundkud, Samantabhadra. Kalaka, Sidha. sena, Aklanka, Prabhachandra, Anaitavirya, Jinasena, Vidyanand. Vadiraja and several others had each several later namesakes of his own
2. Cf. Keilhorn-1. A. X. 75; Pathaka-1. A.-XLVIII p. 20,512; PetersonReport on skt mss II p 67-74; Hiralal-A cot. of mss. in C. P. & Berar, intro p. XX; Valenkar-Jinaratnakose p 146. etc. etc.
3. Buhler-1. A.-XIV, 355; Lewis Rice- Mysore and Coorg p 35, 196; JRAS for 1890 London, p 245-262; Narsimhacharya-kavicharite p. 5-6, etc. etc.
4. K. B. Pathaka-I.A -XII, 19-21, Bombay 1883; D. C, Sarkar--Successors of Satwahanas p. 300; and others who believe in the contemporaneity of Pujyapada and Durvin'ta and prefer for the latter the later of the two dates.
