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52 The Jaina Antiquary
| Vol. XVI of the Nandi Sangha (referred to in no. 2) according to which he was the tenth Guru of that line. A second Pattavalt of that Sangha which is in Prakrit and is most probably older than the first one. also confirms this fact except with regard to dates, as we shall see later on.
According to the evidence of the Darsanasara (110. 3), he was the Guru of Vajranandi who was the founder of the Dravidasangha. But from the above mentioned Pattavalix it appears that Pujyapada was not the immediate preceptor of Vajranandi and that two other Gurus. Jayanandi and Gunanandi had intervened in be!ween them, and also that Vajranandi came 58 years after Pujyapada's death. The Darsanasara which was written by Devasinu who belonged to Ujjain in Vik. S. 990 (A.D. 933), gives the raditional date of the foundation of the Dramila for DravilaSangha bv Vajranandi as V. S 520 (A.D. 469).** He does not associate himseit with any Sanghas lut in his work he gives the origins of several later sanghas, particularly of those which he thought were not qu: - orthodex and were merely Jainabhasa or peeudo-laina. He is n'ten vague and I think should not be much relied upon unless supported by Admn. other more reliable evidence. Moreover. xecause he belonged to northern India and particularly in the Ujjain region, and so was used to the Vikrama cra aline, he vivrs all the dates in that era. It is very likely that with regard to South Indian traditions he wrote merely from heresay and although accopted the figures of the date, he did not pay any attention to their cra which probably was Saka, since in the South Saka era was much nore popular and current than the Vikrama era. Hence it appears that this pa:ticular date might have been Saka 526 (or AD. 601). Anyway, this piece of evidence at least establishes the fact that Vajranandi came sometime after Devanandi Pujyapada and that the former could not have lived much beyond circa 604 AD. This means Pujyapada Deva. nandi' cannot be placed later than the middle of the 6th century A.D. The sequence of these two Gurus is established not only by the
58. ĮBRAS.-XVII p. 74; SI]. p. 21-22: Hist of Tamila p. 247: Studies in Tamit Lit. p. 21-22; Upadhye - Introd. to Pravacanadara p. XXI: Hiralal --cat. Mss. p. 652-on ita p. XXX the author attributes the foundation of the Dravida sangha to Pujyapada whom he calls its first acarya.
