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Jaina Gurus of the Name of Pajyapida (2) The Pajyapada Dēvanandi mentioned in the Pațțivalis of the Nandi-Sangha of Mala-sangha, Kund kund-anvaya. The Sanskrit Pravali" of that sangha places him at number ten alter Padmanandi-Kundkund, and assigns hirn to Vik. 258-308 (or A.D. 200-250).
(3) Pajyapada, the preceptor of Vajranandi who, according to the Darsana-sära of Devasõna (933 A. D.), founded the Dravida. Sangha in Vikrama Sarhvata 526 6
(4) The Pajyapada of the Ganga records and tradition, who is believed to have been the spiritual preceptor and teacher of Ganga King Durvinita.' who is assigned by some to the end of the 5th and beginning of the 6th century A. D and by others to the first half of the 7th century A. D.
(5) Pajyapada of the Chalukyan record: 8-who is, in the Laxaměsvara inscription of Saka 651. (A.D 729), said to be a native of Alaktakanagar. To Udayadeva Pandit of Devagaña, Malasangha, who is styled in an inscription of A.D. 729, as the house-pupil of Sri-Pajyapada, King Vijayaditya Satyasraya Chalukya gave in donation the village of Kardam for the Sarkha-Jināndra temple in Saka year 622 (A.D 700). Nirvadya Pandit, another desciple of this Pajyapada who is also described as a great grammarian and is assigned to Saka 600 (A.D. 678), was the spiritual minister of King Vinayaditya Chalukya.
(6) The Pajyapada whom Dhananjaya in his Namamåla makes out to be an unrivalled Laxaņakara."
(7) The Pajyapada whom Svami Virasena mentions and from whose Sara-sangraha and Tatwartha-Bhaşya the latter quotes in his famous Dhavala commentary of the Sata-khandagama-Siddhanta."0
5. Pub. on p 320 of Dr. Bhandarkar's Report on Skt. mss. for 1883-84. There is another, a Prokrit Pattavali of the same sangha which appears to be older and more correct. But it gives no dates. Cf. S. Samantabhadra p. 145, 163.
6. JBRAS-XVII p 74. 7. Rice-My & Co. p. 35, 196; E.C. XII Im. 23 p. 7; M.A.R, 1911-12 p. 35. 8. I A.-XII p. 112. ibid p. 19-21. 9. "WATU 934914 WOTR.1 W*
WATTIA " (Namamaja) 10. Dhavala p. 700 of Vedanåkhanda, & fata-kh, Agama 1,1,1, Intro. p 60.
