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Paramåtma-Prakasa
Prakyta Lakşara. Since Joindu "closely follows Samadhitataka of Pujyapada" and since "Pujyapada 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 dohis in his Prakyta Laksana happens to be from Joindu's Paramaima-prakala. 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 Caņda'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 Prakrta 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 Lakşandvali in A. D. 984. In his Atmatattvaviveka, Chowk. Skt. Series, 1940. p. 430, we read the following :
" 'वेदविद्वेषिदर्शनान्तःपातिपुरुषप्रणीतत्वात्' इति मा शङ्किष्ठाः, जिनेन्द्रजगदिन्दुप्रणीतेष्वप्यादरात् ।”
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 Vrtti of Dravya sangraha :
A still earlier Ms. dated 1416 Samvat (i.e., c. A. D. 1357, is reported in the Rajasthanake Jaina sastra-bhandaroki Grantha-sūci, part III (Jayapur 1957), p. 180. This very Suci reports (p. 193) a Ms. of the P-prakasa with the vitti of Brahmadeva, dated Saṁvat 1489. (8) On p. 85, the verse jam allind etc.
This verse is practically identical with the Malacara III. 8. 2) 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 Sūtras of Umāsvāti, written by Adhyātmi Bālacandra. the following Prakrit stanza occurs :
सिद्धति-अभयचंदो तस्स सिस्सो य होइ सुदमुणिणो । सव्वगुणे परिपुण्णो तस्सं सिस्सो य नागचंदो य ॥
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