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Yasakirti who was honoured by the king of Ceylon and Trimusbhmuni the desciple of Gopanandi. Gandavimukta-maladhari Hemacandra was another desciple of this Gopanandi and thus seems to be identical with the Maladharideva mentioned above. And Gopanandi lived in the reign of Vikramaditya VI Tribhuvanamalla, 5% while the Hole, Belagola stone inscription assigns him to A.D. 1094.5The date of his another contemporary Prabhacandra who was patronised by King Bhoja and also perhaps by his successors King Jayasimha of Dhara, and who in the capital city wrote his famous works Prameya-Kamala-martanda, Nyaya Kumuda-candra, Sabdambhoja bhaskara, Kathakos, Ratnakaranda lika etc. is fixed as circa 1010-1080 A.D. This shows that Vasavacandra must also belong to the 11th century. Hence the Pujyapada yogi referred to in no. 13 might have lived any time between 1100 and 1600 AD. He could he identical with any one of the three Pajyapad is so far discussed. but the epithet yogi attatched to his name indicates that he was probably the same person as Mangaraja's Guru the alchemist or, he might have been quite a different person.
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One Pujyapada (no. 12) is mentioned by Ayyaparya in his Jinendra-Kalyanabhyudaya (completed in 1320 A D.), as the author of a Pratishthapatha. These works dealing with the rules, regulations and rituals of the consecrational ceremoniale commenced to be written very late and were much popularised by the Bhattarakas of the Medieval period. Practically no scholar prior to the 8th or 9th century is known to have written any Pratishthapatha. At least the authorship of no Pratishthapatha is anywhere attributed to the Pujyapadas referred to in nos. 1 to 11. Of the other eight writers of this type of works mentioned by Ayyaparya. most of them are later Bhattarakas or laymen. Of these, Asadhara. Ekasendhi and Hastimalla belong to the 13th, Vasunandi to the 12th and Indranandi to the 11th century A.D. Of the remaining three writers,
53. MJ. D. 55.
54. E. C. V cn. 148, pp. 189-190.
55. D. L. Kothia--Anekant VIII. 12, pp. 466-469. Pt. Mahendra Kumar, however, assigns him to 980-1065 A. D. (See Anekant IV, 2, pp. 124-132).
56. PS., p. 104.
