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Bhūtasuddhi. We surmise that the first and second chapters of the work may have contained Mantrilakṣaṇa and Divyādivya grahalaksaņa as are contained in Jwālinikalpa of Indranandi. The fifth chapter deals with invoking the deity in the body of a suitable person. The sixth chapter gives Sri Kalikunda Pārsvanātha Yantra to cure affliction by evil spirits and also to remove other troubles. Another Yantra and Mantras are then described for the same purpose.
The importance of this work is that it very probably reflects an earlier mode of worship and gives Mantra and Yantra of Padmāvati as in vogue in the time of Sri Indranandi that is at least a century prior to Mallişeņasūri.
It is difficult to say who Candra and Yasobhadra Upādhyāya were and when exactly they flourished. From v. 6 ch. V in which Padmavati is identified with various principal deities of other cults we are able to surmise that the author must be later than 1203 Vikrama era when Pārsvadevagani wrote his cominentary on Padrāvatyastaka as he had not the verse 20 of Padmavatīstotra (Appendix 5) before him and did not therefore comment upon it. The fact is that the hymn being very popular several subsequent additions to it have been made from time to time and v. 20 is a part of such later addition. This verse appears to have been paraphrased as v. 6 ch. V of Adbhuta Padmavati Kalpa. We can therefore only say that the author must have flourished considerably later the 1203 Vikrama era. We may also note that there was one Yasobhadrasūri of Harsapuriya Maladhari Gaccha who in 1270 Vikrama era took part along with others in revising Devaprabhasüri's Pāndavacaritra. He may be supposed to have had a pupil named Candra when Yaśobhadra was only Upādhyāva and not Achārya or Sūri. The famous Saiddhāntika and logician Municandrasūri, the pupil of Yasobhadrasūri of Bịhadgaccha was cartainly not the author. That the author had not perhaps before him Mallişena's Bhairava Padināvati Kalpa can be explained by the fact that after the historic debate in Siddharaj's time in 1181 Vikrama era and the defeat
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