Jain Journal 2003 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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JAIN JOURNAL VOL-XXXVIII. NO. 2 OCT. 2003
4. Late Dr. Jyoti Prasad Jain in his article 'Jaina Gurus of the name of Pujyapada' has given the life and date of different Pujyapādas. In his conclusion he has mentioned as follows.
"Thus we have seen some two dozen references and allusions in literature and epigraphy records to the Jaina gurus known by the name of Pujyapada and when boiled down leave us with about sixteen apparently unconnected Pujyapādas".
Dr. Jyoti Prasad Jain points out that 'the references are concerned only with Devanandi-Pujyapāda who is the auther of Sarvārthasiddhi and the other texts such as Istopadesa, Dasabhakti and Samadhitantra etc.' Hence, he states that the great Acārya Pujyapada belongs to the 7th century A.D."
5. Acārya Subhacandra mentioned in the commencement of Jñānārṇava that he bowed to Devanandi, whose words to remove the blemishes of the living beings originated from the body, speech and mind.2
Here it is definite that the statement "kaya-vāk-cittasambhavam" refers to his works first on Ayurveda, second on Jyotisa and the third on all those works pertaining to Adhyatma.2
6. Acārya Dēvasena mentioned that Devanandi Pujyapāda happened to be the Pujyapada Vajranandi by whom the Dravida Samgha was established.3
7. Acārya Jinasena who lived in the 9th A.D., in his work Ādipurāṇa had referred to Pujyapāda in this following stanza: "kavīnām Tirthakruddevaḥ kimtarām tatra varṇayate/ viduṣām vānmaladhvaṁsi tīrthasya vacomayam//"
8. Dr. Hiralal Jain, in his introduction to the first volume of Satkhaṇḍāgama, referred that Acārya Vīrasena, who lived in the 8th century A.D., the famous commentator of 'Dhavala', referred to Pūjyapāda with a word 'sara samgrahepyuktam Pujyapādaiḥ'
9. The poet Dhananjaya who lived in the 8th century A.D. said to Pujyapāda lakṣaṇagrantha in the following couplet." "pramāṇamakalaṁkasya Pujyapādasya lakṣaṇam Dhananjayakaveḥ kavyaṁ Ratna-trayamapaścimam"