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Jaina Gurus of the Name of Pujyapada
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'was he the same as Nagarjuna of Budhist tradition or a different person 1948 In fact, there is absolutely no ground for any of the two above mentioned identifications. The Jaina Nagarjuna who was a famous alchemist ant tantric scholar is quite a different person and niust have been related to the later Pujyapada yozi of C. 1300 A.D. No doubt, the famo:is Sidha School o! medicine of South India, which is quite characteristic of and quite in kreping with the nonviolent creed of the Jainas, which totally denounced the use of flesh, wine etc. owed its development particularly to Jainas. The first Pujyapida might have been responsiile for its origin, but it was the later Pujyapada of C. 1300 AD. alongwith his celebrated desciple and nephew Sidha Nagarjuna who set the school on a sound fooling and succeded in popularising it as a definite systein. According to Monindra Viridhainni's account the famous statue of Pir:wa Jina in the the Porswa-sasadi on Mount Kankachala was installed by Nagarjuna." It appears that the Parswa-isasadi men. Pioned by Devarasa is the same and the hill containing it, which was situated near the town of Pugataka in Karnataka, and on which the tarnous Pujvapada is sait to have conducted his experiments in alchemy (Sidha-rasa) and yoga" was this very Kanakachala (the Golden mountain!
As to the Pujyapada yrgi no. 13) who rendered into Kannada the Prakrit Satap.di of Vasavachandra is mentioned by Payanvarni who him-eli wrote the same work in Sangalya metre in 1659 AD, he obviously preceded Payanavarni and came after Vasavachandra, This Pavnainuni had completed his Sanatkumar charta in 1606 A.D."1 The Kattule Basadi record 5" of Sravana Bela-Gola informs us that the colleagues ol Vasavachandra were Devendramuni, Prabhacandra the grammarian and logician who was paid homage to by king Bhoja of Dhari, Dawanandi, Maghanandi, Maladharideva,
48. Med. Jainism, p. 267. 49. PS. p. 123 Fri. 50. Kavicharite p. 11-12; also Pujyapada Charita. 51. Kavicharite p. 352. 52. E. C. II 69, p. 35.
