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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM Hamsarāja's work was called Ratnäkarādhiśvaraśataka (circa A.D. 1600).1 A grammarian and a lexicographer, Devottama wrote the Nānārtharatnākara assigned to circa A.D. 1600.2 Another lexicographer was his contemporary Sringārakavi, the author of the Karnāțaka Sanjīvana.3
It was asserted in the last chapter that Penugonda was a centre of the Bhavyas. The life of Pāyaṇavrati, also called Pārsvavarṇī, bears this out. This writer hailed from Nandiyapura near Penugoņda. He started life as a teacher of the Jina dharma to the Bhavyas. From his childhood he showed signs of being a clever poet ; and in his fifty-fifth year he took dikşā at the hands of Lakşmisenamuni of the Sena gana in the Pārsvanātha basadi of Penugoņda. It was because of this that he was called Pārsvavarņi. His work is styled Samyaktvakaumudi. Brahmakavi is remembered only because of his Vajrakumāracarite.5
That Srirangapaytana contained, indeed, a Jaina temple is proved by the life of Pāyaṇamuni, who wrote the Sanatkumāracarite in the Ādi Jineśa basadi of śrīrangapattana in about A.D. 1606.6
With him were other well known Jaina writers of the first half of the seventeenth century A.D. The most important among them was Pañcabāņa. It is interesting to note that his guru was the Sthānika Cannapayya. Pancabāņa was a
1. Kavicarite, II, pp. 328-329. 2. Ibid, II, pp. 330-331.
3. Ibid, II, pp. 338-339. Santarasa, who wrote the Yogaratnākara, also belonged to the same age. But nothing is known of him. Ibid., p. 340.
4. Ibid, II, pp. 332-333. 5. Ibid, II, p. 341. 6. Ibid, II, p. 352.
