Date of Kundakundacharya

Author(s): M A Dhaky
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42. At least the available inscriptions do not seem to suggest one.
43. The data presented by Jayasenācārya are fairly pin-pointed unlike the later
sources.
44. Pt. Nathuram Premi as well as Muni Kalyanvijaya is of this view.
45. About the so-called, though very small, parllelism between Akalankadeva's writing and of Kundakundacārya, in one case, I shall review it in a future paper. (Also a quotation commonly figuring in Pujayapada Devanandi's Kundakundacārya I shall discuss in a subsequent paper.)
46. Jainism in South India, Sholapur 1957, p. 152.
47. Ibid., p. 184.
48. Cf. "A Jaina Epigraph from Konakondal," Dr. N. Venkataramanayya Commemoration Volume, Journal of the Andhra Pradesh Historical Research Society, Vol. XXXVII, pt. 1, Hyderabad 1983, p. 87.
49. Cf. Chaudhari, "Intro.", pp. 46, 50-52.
50. Desai, p. 90.
51. I noticed this reference in his Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Jainism on the Kanara Coast", which was submitted to Mysore University, 1983. My grateful thanks are due to Shri Narasimha Murthy.
52. EC, X, Chika-ballapur 1,.. no. 29.
53. The sites in question must be thoroughly surveyed by the State Department of Archaeology and the different university departments dealing with ancient Indian history and related subjects in Karnataka State, for estimating their antiquity.
54. The paper is entitled "The Date of Satkhaṇḍāgama" and is shortly going to the press. I, therefore, will discuss no evidence in this paper on the late date for that work.
55. Satakhanḍagama, Pt. 1, Sholapur 1973, "Introduction", p. ii.
56. These may have come from the floating sangrahant collections. Some of these, with small variations in readings and sequence also figure inside the Prajñapana-sutra of Arya Syama (II) (c. 3rd cent. A.D.)
57. Upadhye earlier had doubted it. Pt. Kailashchandra Shastri, however, concedes to this as possible. Pt. Hiralal Jain found a few parallelisms between the Niyamasara attributed to Kundakundācārya and the quotations of the Parikarma