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authority, and most of these references seem to indicate the same Guru of circa 1300 A.D. No doubt, a very much earlier Pujyapada was also a great authority on that science, but the nature, style and language of those works and references preclude any possibility of their being written by the author of Jainendra, Sarvarthasidhi etc. Even this Kalyanakaraka referred to by Vijvanand Upadhyaya as the basis of his Sarasangraha is either the creation under an older name of Mangaraja's Guru or is a later recession of Jagadalla Somnath's work (referred to in no. 9 which purports to be Kannada rendering of the original Kalyanakaraka of the older Pujyapada.
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According to a South Indian tradition. Sidha Nagarjuna a famous alchemist of South India was the sister's son and desciple of the great master Pujyapada yogi Some people confuse this alchemist Nagarjuna with the famous Budist savant of that name who belonged to the early centuries of christian era an 1 hence have also concluded that the Pajvapada to whom he is said to have been related must have been the original Pujyapa la alies. Devanandi of 5th century A.D. Dr. Saletore is, however, doubtful and asks himself,
44. Kalyanakataka (shol ap Intro pp. 12.14 (4 Baswa Rais. 13. tan en of unframt avariasquasfu gostar AT is written are fufather kn 195 the evimizamani (naza a) is waren gumi faui ir geankalaise an 1 'mart home impof: dez (QFA TRE) - CK hp 1199, and at the end of fa crear in another obicn-farm
(i) Nityavathivs angagapanah ofister arcar geta faixa:
10 - tari
a
14 written 'नाम्नार्य
the end of 200 BRA and at the end of megamat is said "magnet
(iii) Madhava Nova 1, o. 10-P Á ÏE: (iv) Basa-ratna-sinucaya in one place mentions etc (v) Many other Yogas found scattered in medical literature of S. India are ascribed to Pupepada.
45. V. P. Sastri in his Introd. p. 34) to Kalvanak iraka, however, holds that all these references refer solely to the first Pujyapads of 6th century A.D. But he evidently appears to here been mistaken
46 PS. D 149.
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Kavicharite, I. pp. 11-12. It says that another Jaina writer who also wrote on medicine was Nagarjuna who was l'ujyapada's sister's son and was a famous alchemist and Tantric scholar
