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4. Acarya Dharasena, Puspadanta and Bhutaball and their works
They are great spiritual philosophers of Digambara Jain tradition. They were profound scholars of Karmasiddhanta, Dharasena was the teacher of Puspadanta and Bhutabali. Dharasena made a request to the Congregation that two monks well-versed in Jain Karmasiddhanta are sent to him immediately to save the knowledge which he had gained from the purvas. Accordingly, Puspadanta and Bhutabali went to Dharasena, the knower of the Purvagata Kammapayadi-pahuda who was engaged with his penance and counting his last days. They gained the required knowledge from Dharasena and returned back to their natives. Puspadanta composed the Visadisutta, the Satparuvana of Satkharidagama for Jinapalita and then sent it with Jinapalita to Bhūtabali in Dravid country for going through the Visadisutta, the other name of Satprarupaṇā. Puspadanta was elder to Bhūtabali. Bhūtabali understood that the duration of life of Puspadanta is remained not much. Puspadanta prepared the synopsis of the Satkhandagama and disturbed the Jivatthana into eight Anuyogadvaras. Satprarupana was its first Anuyogadvāra which was written by Puspadanta. The other Anuyogadvāra as the he parts of the Satkhaṇḍāgama were composed by Bhutabali.
5. Acarya Yativṛşabha and His Works
Nothing much is known about him. His two works are mainly available i.e. Kaṣāyapāhuḍa Cunnisutta and Tiloyapanṇatti. The first does not indicate any thing about him. But the other one Tiloyapannatti informs of course as follows:
Panamaha jinavara-vasaham, ganaharavasaham taheva gunaharavasaham, Dusahaparisaha-vasaham, jadivasaham dhammasutta padhae vasaham/ Cunnasaruvam attham, kara padama-pamana-kimjantam. Atthasahassa-pamanam, Tiloyapannatti-namae, Gäthä 77, Part 2, p. 882
Kaşayapāhuḍa Cunnisutta
The Kaşayapahuda Cunnisutta of Yativṛsabha is known as Vṛtti, which provides the different meanings of Bijapadas in a condensed way. In other words, the Cunnisutta are the exposition of Bijapadas as pointed out by using the word "Anucntiun nedavvari" or "Genhiyabbam". The total number of Sutras of the work is 7009.
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