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No II 1
Jaina Gurus of the Name of Pujyapada
in no cage did he live much prior to the beginnig of the 16th century. Nothing else is known about him.
The Pujyapada Vrtipa (no. 17) mentioned by Pandya Kshmapati in the beginning (v. 8) of loss Bhavyananda Sastra," I soon after Nagacandra and Devacandra, the author's own immediate Gurus, a!so scems to have been an earlier Bhattaraka or Guru associated with Karkala and being contemporary of these persons, must be assigned in the first half o! the 19th century i.e. ciica 1450 A.D.38 It is also possible that the two Pujyapadas so far discussed might have been identical.
The Pujyapada muni referied to in no. 11, as the Guru of Mangarajı, the author of Khagendra-mani-darpana (c. 1360 A D.) and described here as a great master or the science of medicine, 39 must have belonged to the early part of the 14th century AD. His medical achievements and sritings seem to have become quite cele borried. The famous Pujyapardu no. 15) who had conducted his experimenty in acheni Sidhara-a) on a hill with the basadi of Paruwa Jina on it, near the town of Pugataka in Karnataka, as mentioned ! Devarsa in his Gurudattacharita (1650 A.D.)+c, is mont pro arly identical with the Guru of Mangrata. The several later wo: kr in medicine as referred to in no. 19, such as the VaidyaSala or Vaidyasar sangrahatl. Madan-kama-ratnani?, Nidanamukavalt ele, als seem to be the creations of this very Pujyapada, because about the two Biattarkas of Karkala nothing is known of their proficiency in medicine. Some non Jaina mcdical writers like Basavaraja. Nityanatha. tie aur hors of Madhavanidana, of Rasaratnasamuccaya ec. also refer to Pujyapada as a medical
$7. Ibal, r3. 38. Ibid, pp. 30-39. 39. Karnataki kavicharite, l. p 412.4.2 40 Trid. pp 39:-592. 41. PS. p 151. 42. Ibid. p. 13 13. Ibid, p 15.
