Essentials of Samadhishataka

Author(s): B M Chamke
Publisher: S B Chamke Barshi

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Introduction
Pujyapada was a unique figure in the
Philosophy, He was a genuine
history of Jain
thinker and verstile scholar, who exerted incalculable influence on the entire
of and
popularizing the Jain
Pujyapada was an offshoot of Jain yet he has contributed something of his cwn of a high rank, valuable and Philosophy and uplifted it to
lasting to Jain
its supreme summit !
Though
tradition,
an
development
Philosophy.
In any rational thinking and logical conclusion, 'what' implies 'when' and to this effect, I think, 'what' of Pujyapada necessarily demands the 'when' of his traditional base, the Jainism.
It has been very commonly usual and conventional that many thinkers and scholars ascribe the origin and starting point of the Jain system to Rshabhadeva who was the first Tirthankar and lived many centuries back in remote past. But the ascription of the origin to a fix point in. the course of history is a misfortune and misunderstanding cf the unlimited time length of this system; and I think, this is