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Jaina Gurus of the Name of Pujyapåda
this guru was Devanandi and that he was also called Pajyapada and Jinendrabuddhi. It gives the reasons too why he was so called. It ascribes to him the authorship of Jainābhiśēka also, besides the three already mentioned works, 19
(b) The record of 1398 A D. confirms the names Devanandi and Jinendrabuddhi given to him and the derivation of the name. Pujyapada. 30
(c) The record of 1432 A.D. tells us of Pajyapada's wonderful yogic powers and of his visit to the Vidéha kshetra. After Pujyapada, it also mentions Aklanka and some other gurus who came after him, 21
(d) The Nagar inscription of 1530 A D. attributes to Pujyapada the authorship of-Nyayakumuda-Chandrodaya, the Nyasa on Sutras of Sakaṭayana, the Nyasa named Jainendra, also the great Nyasa called Sabdavatara on Sutras of Panini, the Vaidyasastra and a Tika to the Tatwartha.??
(12) Ayyaparya,
the author of Jinendra-Kalyāṇābhudaya (1320 A. D,) attributes the authorship of a Protistha-patha to one Pajyapada. 23
(13) The Pujyapada yogi who is said to have rendered into Kannada the Satapadi i.e. the story of Jnana-Chandra-Charita, originally written in Prakrita by Vasavachandra. And Payana Varni, the desciple of Panditacharya rewrote this Kannada work of Pujyapåda, in Sangalya Chhanda in 1659 A D.2+
(14) The Pajyapada muni who was the guru of Mangaraja (circa 1360 A.D.) an official of early Vijayanagar and author of Khagendra mani-darpaṇa, a famous work on medicine In his work Mangraja speaks of his guru Pajyapada and tells us that he has utilized the latter's celebrated work on medicine while delineating in the portion on the conduct of a thousand immovable kinds of poisons, 25
19. E. C. II 64 p. 17. 20. E. C. II 254 p. 110. 21. Ibid 258 p. 117. 22. E C. VIII Nv. 46 147. 23. Prasasti Sang. p. 104. 24. Med. Jainism p. 385 (n): 25. Kavicharite I p. 417-422.
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