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92/ The Rāstrakūtas and Jainism
was also, like the former, an expert in Jaina philosophy. Pālyakirti Sākatāyana is held in high esteem by the learned class :
kutastyā tasya sā saktih pälyakirtirmahaujasah śripadaśravanam yasya
śābdikān kurutējanān 4.6.1. Sākatāyana, who had Pālyakirti as his first name is equally respected in both the Jaina sects of Digambara and Svētāmbara. Pālyakirti alias sākatāyana belonged to the Yāpaniya sect which was popular in the years of the Rāştrakūtas. He was a pupil of Arkakirti, an abbot of Yāpaniya diocese.
4.6.2. Śākațāyana completed his grammar Sabdānusāsana, as a court-scholar-monk of Amõghavarşa. He composed Vrtti, an auto - commentary, on his grammatical work Sabdānusāsana and rightly termed it, in honor of his patron, as Amõgha-Vrtti. In his Sabdānušāsana, though a grammatical treatise, sākatāyana hạs attempted to embellish the śāstra-krti with pearls of his contemporary history. To cite an example, while illustrating the anadyatana-bhūta tense, Sākatāyana refers to the conquest of his overlord Amöghavarsa over the Pāņdyas and the burning of the enemies :
bhūte anadyatanē.. aruņaddēvaha pāņdyam adahad=amõghavarşõ= arātin (sabdā mušāsana : VI - 3- 202]
Historians also suggest that a governor of Gujarāt was crushed a heavy defeat by Amõghavarsa when he attempted a coup d'etat.
4.6.3. Sākațāyana system of Sanskrit grammar is equally famous as Jainēndra system, both the school of
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