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4.3.5.1. Kalyāṇakāraka, a medical work, was completed at Rāmagiri, the level plains in Vengimandala of Trikalinga vişaya (AP : Višakapatnam Dt), the modern Rāmakonda. Ugrāditya was a disciple of Srinandi ācārya, worshipped by Srivişnurāja alias Vişnuvardhana-IV (772808) of Eastern Cālukya dynasty, who gave his daughter Silābhattārikā in marriage to Dhārāvarsa Dhruva. Srivişnurāja, his son Vijayāditya-II (808-47) extended their support. Particularly Vişnuvardhana-IV, a rājādhirāja, king of kings, was a patron of anēkāntamata, like his forefathers. Ugrăditya has mentioned the names of Lalitakirti, Dēvacandra and Dayāpāla, famed friars of his period. For compiling Kalyāṇakāraka, a treatise on medicine, Ugrāditya states that Mēghanāda, Simhanāda, Pūjyapāda, Samantabhadra, Siddhasēna and Pātrasvāmi were his authorities.
4.3.5.2. The great royal physician, in the tradition of Pūjyapāda Dēvanandi, Ugrāditya, a confere of Lalitakirti ācārya, visited the Rāstrakūța court of Amõghavarşa-I, in about C. E. 830, where he delivered a discourse on meatless diet and advocated the solemnity of vegetarianism for a healthy and spiritual progress.
4.3.5.3. Ugrāditya was a recluse of Mūlasamgha, original congregation, Dēsiga gana pustakagaccha Panasoge vaļi, a cohort of Jaina abbots. in the line of Ācārya Kondakunda. Śrinandi, his professor and founder of the Jaina monastic order at Rāmagiri, is, as I have pointed out elsewhere, identical with Śrinandi, the author of Mahāpurāņa, mentioned by Cāmuṇdarāya in his Trişaşțilaksaņa-Mahāpurāņa (C. E. 978).
4.3.5.4. Kalyāṇakāraka is a comprohensive and original exposition on the science of medicine composed in Sanskrit verse. The work consisting of 25 chapters is divided into two parts, devoted to the cause of diseases and treatment of
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