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sarasvatī, as those works state“), contradicting one another ?
Was it the Mahākāla Temple where he met Vikramāditya and where his recitation worked the alleged miracle of the Jina statue, or was it the temple of Kuqangeśvara ? Were this statue, the temple where it appeared and the place of pilgrimage into which the latter developed after its restitution to the Jainas sacred to Pārsvanātha or to Ādinātha“8 ?
Was he a disciple of Vrddhavādin whose original name was Mukunda“, or cf Dharmācārya50?
Anyhow, the date of Vrddhavādin, Dharmācārya and Siddhasena himself is unanimously declared to be in the vicinity of the starting year of the Vikrama Saṁvat, and all three are explicitly stated to have been contemporary with Kālakācārya, the famous Sakaguru". But simultaneously Siddhasena is also stated to have been a descendant of Pādaliptasūri, author of the much praised Prāksta novel Tarangāvali and founder of Pālītāna, the same Pädalipta who is mentioned as coeval with Nāgārjuna ( the latter flourishing in the time of Kaniska ), with Nāgahastin ( who, according to the Nandi-sūtra, was the 22nd Yugapradhāna and whose predecessor Aryarakṣita, the 21st, is stated to have lived 620 after Vīra, as has been shown above ), and with Arya Khapuța (known to have died in Vikrama Samvat 484 )52.
The Prabhāvakacaritra moreover relates that this same Pādalipta lived at the court of King Krsna of Mānakhetapura”, i.e., Malkhed, the capital of the Rāstrakūtas, though the latter was founded, according to present assumptions, by King Amoghavarşa (815-877 A.D.), or though in any case the earliest Krsnarāja who 'could have ruled there, even if Malkhed is assumed to have existed before, would be Krsna I who died between 772 and 775 A. D.55
What to say, moreover, re Siddhasena's stay at Citrakūța, related in several sources56, in view of the fact that this place was founded as late as Saṁvat 60957 ?
And what about his being coeval with Kālidāsa, Vararuci,
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