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The Jaina Antiquary
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(15) Devarasa (1650 A. D.) in his Gurudatta Charitra tells us that near the town of Pagatāka in Karnataka was a hill which contained the basadi of Pārsva-Jina, and that on this hill the famous Pujyapada has conducted experiments in alchemi (Sidha-rasa).
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(16) The Pujyapada whose desciple and sister's son was Sidha Nagarjuna, the famous alchemist of South India.37
(17) The Pajyapada whom Pandya Kshamapati in his Bhavyananda sastra mentions along with Deva-Chandra and Nagachandra, the immediate predecessor or gurus of his own."8
(18) The Pujyapada Svami who is mentioned in a list found inscribed on a panel at Karkal. In this list of gurus who seem to have been associated with that place, he is mentioned soon after Dharmabhaṣaṇa Bhaṭṭāraka and just before Vimala-sari Bhaṭṭāraka.29
(19) The Pujyapada to whom the authorship of several works on medicine like the Madana-kama-ratnam, the Nidana-Muktavali 1 etc. is ascribed, and under whose name Vijayanņa Upadhyaya quotes many rasa-yogas or medicinal formulae, in his Sarasangraha,"
(20) The Pajyapada or Pujyapādas to whom the authorship of the following works is also attributed
Sidha-bhaktyādi-sangraha, Isṭopadeśa, Shantyaṣṭaka, Chhandaśástra, Svapnávali, Kārikāvṛtti, Surasasangraha, Upasakachara, Sravakachara etc.
(21) Lastly, there is the Pajyapada, the account of whose life is given in the Kannada Pajyapada Charita of poet Chandayya and in the Rajavalipathe of Devachandra.
Now it is quite obvious that all these references cannot point to one and the same Pujyapada. No doubt, it is also quite certain that there could not have been as many as twenty or so gurus of that name. A closer examination which shall hereafter be made, should, however, certainly reduce their number very much.
(To be continued)
26. Ibid p. 391-392.
27. Ibid p. 11-12; also see Chandayya's Pujyapada Charita. 28. Pr. Sang. p. 34.
39. M. A. R. for 190-21 p. 8.
30. PS-p. 13.
31. Ibid p. 15. 32. Ibid p. 149.
