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MEDIEVAL JAINISM Jaina author was Mangarāja I (circa a.d. 1360). He was the official placed over the city of Muguli which was the capital of Devaļige in the Hoysala kingdom. His guru was Pūjyapādamuni, who may have been the same scholar who rendered into Kannada Vāsavacandra's work in Prakrit. Whatever that may be, Mangarāja I's great work was called Khagendramanidarpaņa. He was awarded quite a number of titles among which were the following---Akhilavidyājalanidhi, Sāhityavaidyāmbunidhi, and Bhişagvaratilaka. His work deals with poisons, and he tells us that he has utilized Pūjyapāda's celebrated work on medicine, while delineating the portion on the conduct of a thousand immoveable kinds of poisons. 1
From Mangarāja I to the next Jaina writer on medicine Śrīdharadeva (circa A.D. 1500) is, indeed, a wide gap which cannot be easily explained. Śrīdharadeva's work was called Vaidyāmīta which was written at the instance of Municandra.
Bācarasa was another Jaina author on medicine. He too belonged to the same age. He was the son of Cāmundarāya, and was known as Sujanaikabändhava. His work was known as Aśvavaidya (circa A.D. 1500), which deals with all details concerning horses and their ailments.::
The author of the famous Bhārata mentioned above, Sālya, is also noted for his work called Vaidyasāngatya.+
Padmaņa Pandita, the son of Deparasa of Kanakapura, seems to have followed the lead of Bācarasa. For Padmarasa wrote in A.D. 1627 Hayasārasamuccaya dealing mi
1. Kavicarite, I. pp. 417-422. 2. Ibid, II. p. 166. 3. Ibid, II. p. 171. 4. Ibid, II. p. 250.
