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No. !!! Jaina Gurus of the Name of Pujyapada Jinasena, Gunabhadra and Viracarya, the two famous Jinasenas-the author of Harvamsa (783 A.D.) and the author of Adipurana, Parswabhyudaya and Jayadhavala (837 A.D.), as also the latter Jinasena's desciple Gunabhadra who was the author of Atmanu. sasana and Uttarapurana (898 A.D.) are not known to have written any Pratishthapathas. Similar is the case with regard to Viracarya or Mahaviracarya the famous mathematician of the 9th century A.D.7 Hence the Pujyapada mentioned herein was either the Pujyapada Yogi of C 1300 A.D. who besides being a Yogi, an alchemist, a physician and a medical writer was also probably the author of the Kannada Satapadi or Jñana-candra Charita, a poetical narrative, or he must have been some other Pujyapada who lived any time between C. 900 and 1300 A.D.
Now by far the most celebrated, wellknown and popular guru of this name was Pujyapada Devanandi alias Jinendra budhi referred to in no. 1. His original name was Devanandi. Jinendrabudhi and Pujyapada were his titles, although he has been generally known and referred to simply by the latter name. He belonged to Karnataka, probably the southern part of it which then comprised the Ganga teritory, and was an Acarya of the Nandi Samgha, a branch of the Mulasangha of Kundakundaya's anvaya. He was undoubtedly the author of Jainendra Vyakarana, the Sarvarthasidhi Tika of Tattwartha Sutra, Samadhi-tantra or Samadhi sataka, and probably also o: Istopadesa and of Sidha-bhaktyadi-sangraha. We begin to find numerous references to him and to his works in literature as well as epigraphical records from as carly as the 7th century A.D. And all these references make him a very prominent and ancient Acarya who has alwave been remembered alongwith other ancient celebrities like Bhadrabahu, Kandakunda, Umaswami, Samantabhadra, Aklanka etc. But he is invariably placed soon after the first four, in the same order, and before Aklanka, Virsena, Jinasena, Vidyananda etc. So there remains no doubt that the Pujyapada thus referred to in the various Guruvavalis and epigraphical records (mentioned in no. II) which we shall presently discuss, is this Pujyapada Deva• nandi and none else. And it is he who is mentioned in the Pattavali
57. C. M. Dul-'Chronology of India' gives Viracaryu's date as A. D. 810.
