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we find it recorded that our author had five names: Padmanandi, Kundakunda, į Vakragrīva, Elācārya and Gțdhrapiccha (also spelt pisicha). Then a pattāvalí
of Nandi-sangha of uncertain date records the same five names for Kundakunda.? Hoernle also notes from a MS., in the course of his comparative study of Digambara pattāvalis, that Kundakunda had these five names. The actual dates of these pontifical lists may come as late as the fifteenth century; still one might presume with confidence that portions of their contents might be sufficiently old, though none can say how much. Then Sfrutasāgara, who flourished about the close of the fifteenth century A. D.,4 in the concluding colophons of the Sanskrit commentary on six-pāhuậas of Kundakunda, mentions these five names of our author exactly as enumerated above. Kundakunda himself is completely silent on his names to such an extent that he does not mention his name even in his works excepting at the end of Bārasa-anuvělckhā. His first commentator, Amặtacandra, so far as I know, is silent on this point. Jayasena, however, in the opening remarks on Pañcāa stikāya, remarks that Padmanandi was another name of Kundakunda; and possibly he means the same, when he glorifies Paümanamdi in the two concluding Prakrit verses at the end of his commentary on Samayasāra. Thus, so far as the evidences are before us, it appears that Padmanandi was another name of Kundakunda; and it is only from the fourteenth century onwards that we find the tradition current that he had five names. One would have accepted the tradition of his having five names, had it not been for the fact that some of these names are claimed by other authors, that some of them appear to have been independent individuals, and that the earlier inscriptions which give only two names, do not at all, uphold the tradition of five names; and hence it is necessary to scrutinise these names individually and to see how far the tradition can be accepted as genuine.
VAKRAGRĪVA AS A NAME OF KUNDAKUNDA DISCUSSED.The ne of Vakragrīva, so far as I know, occurs first in an inscription of 1125 A but the inscription does not give any information beyond the bare me Vakragrīvācārya in the line of teachers of Drāvila(da)-sangha and lānvaya. The next mention is found in S'ravana Belgola inscription A. D.; it is a pretty long inscription containing much historical informe In the fifth verse we are told that Köņdakunda deserves respect from all; th:
1 E. Hultzsch: South Indian Inscr., Vol. I, No. 152; Asiatic Researches XX, p.
Indian Antiquary XXIII, p. 126; Guérinot takes Mahamati also as a na: Kundakunda appears to have six names according to him, see Réportoird?
Jaina, No. 585. 2 Soo Jaina Siddhānta Bhaskara, I, iv. 3 I. 4., Vol. XXI, p. 74, foot-bote No. 35. 4 See Annals of the B. O. R. 1., vol. XII, p. 167. 5 The editions etc. of the works of Kundakunda will be given later un
about his works. 6. Throughout Prakrit stands for Prākta and Sa nekrit for Samskrta, 7 E. C., V, Channarayapatna No. 149, 8 E. C., II, 67,
