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Paramåtma-Prakasa
Prakrta Laksana. Since Joindu "closely follows Samadhišataka of Pujyapāda" and since "Pūjyapāda lived a bit earlier than the last quarter of the 5th cent. A.D.", the upper limit of the date of Joindu can be taken as the last quarter of 5th cent. A.D. The lower limit is furnished by Canda one of whose illustrative dohās in his Präkrta Laksana happens to be from Joindu's Paramätma-prakaša. Dr. Upadhye notes some want of settlement on the question of Canda's text and date and says in conclusion that the revised form (of Canda's work) can be tentatively placed about 700 A.D.
In view of the difficulties relating to this lower limit evidence, i.e, Canda's Prāksta Laksana, I may add here a note on what I take to be a reference to Joindu by an author of known date. If we leave Canda, the next limit suggested by Dr. Upadhye is Devasena who finished his Darsanasara in A.D. 933. This evidence rests on the similarities of some verses of Devasena and Joindu. If, on the other hand, there is a definite mention of the writer, it would be a more conclusive evidence. Such a mention, I think, is available.
Udayanācārya wrote his Laksanavali in A. D. 984. In his Atmatattvaviveka, Chowk. Skt. Series, 1940. p. 430, we read the following :
"'वेदविद्वषिदर्शनान्तःपातिपुरुषप्रणीतत्वात्' इति मा शङ्किष्ठाः, जिनेन्द्रजगदिन्दुप्रणीतेश्वप्यादरात् ।"
I think the name Jagadindu in the above passage is a slight corruption of Joindu or Yogindu.
If this suggestion is acceptable, Udayana's date will give a definite lower limit and will clearly prove the untenability of any later dates proposed for Joindu. (See Dr. Upadhye's Foot-note on p. 78 of the Intro. on the date proposed by Mr. M. C. Modi).” (7) Page 82, a Ms. of Brahmadeva's Vịtti of Dravyasaṁgraha :
A still earlier Ms. dated 1416 Samvat (i.e., c. A. D. 1357, is reported in the Rajasthānake Jaina sastra-bhandaroki Grantha-sūci, part III (Jayapur 1957), p. 180. This very Sūci reports (p. 193) a Ms. of the P.-prakåsa with the vrtti of Brahmadeva, dated Samvat 1489. (8) On p. 85, the verse jam allină etc.
This verse is practically identical with the Mülăcăra III. 8. (9) Page 86, on Adhyātmi Balacandra
My friend Prof D.L. Narasimhachar, Mysore, writes to me (1-8-1941) thus:
At the end of a Ms. called Tattvaratna-pradipika, a Kannada commentary on the Sutras of Umäsväti, written by Adhyatmi Balacandra, the following Prākrit stanza occurs :
सिद्धति-अभयचदो तस्स सिस्सो य होइ सुदभुणिणो । सब्वगुणे परिपुण्णो तस्सं सिस्सो य नागचंदो य ॥
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