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INTRODUCTION.
- There are other epigraphic records in which sometimes the name Grdhrapiccha?
alone and sometimes Umāsyātié, alone is mentioned. Thus there appears to be no doubt that Grdhrapiccha was the name of Umāsvāti.3. It is through lack of proper information or through mis-information that the tradition, viz. Kundakunda had a name Gựdhrapiccha, appears to have been current possibly from the last quarter of the fourteenth century. This tradition has been a source of further confusion that Kundakunda; on the supposition that he had a name Gựdhrapiccha and from the fact that Gțdhrapicchācārya was the author of Tattvārthasūtra,4 came to be looked upon by Rajendramauli, a late commentator on Tattvārthasūtra, as the author of Tattvārthasūtra ;5 and it is a misrepresentation of facts, contradictory to earlier evidences available, in unmistakable terms.
CONCLUSION ABOUT HIS NAMES.-To conclude, it is clear, in the light of the evidences discussed above, that Padmanandi was the name of our author, and he came to be known as Kõndakundācārya, possibly a name derived from that of his native place, Kundakundapura, as Indranandi tells us in his Srutāvatāra (verse 160 etc.); as to the other names attributed to Kundakunda, the name Elācārya is a matter still sub judice; and with regard' to two other names early epigraphic records go against the tradition; I think, they might have been current through lack of authentic information about Kundakunda.
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL RELICS OF KUNDAKUNDA.--At the end of Bārasa. anuvěkkhā Kundakunda mentions his name; and at the end of Bodha-prābhrta, we find that it is the composition of the s'isya of Bhadrabāhu: this is all that we learn about Kundakunda from his works. The students of Prakrit
terature and those of Taina literature will always look upon it as an unforunate phenomenon that Kundakunda has not left anything from his mouth about the details of his personality in any of his works, but that is not at all abnormal in the history of ancient Indian literature.
TRADITIONAL BIOGRAPHY: OF KUNDAKUNDA.-There are available a couple of traditional stories about the life of Kundakunda; they are not at all wintemporary records; and moreover, being written at a time far distant from ke age of Kundakunda, they, by themselves, do not deserve much credit. Professor Chakravartie narrates the life of Kundakunda on the authority of
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2. O., IV, Nagamangala No. 76.
C., VIII, Nagar No. 46.
Dhavalū commentary we get a line: Giddhapicchiriyd-poyasida-Taccattho-sutte / 2. C., II, 254; E. C., VIII, Nagar No. 46; and the popular verse which is generally found and repeated at the close of Tattvārtha--sutra
Tattvarthasíttra-hartāram Grdhromcchopalahsitam /
vande garindra-sanjatam Umāscāti-munis'varam (1 5 See Anehänta Vol. I, p. 198; I have, in my possession, a fairly written MS. of Rajendra.
mauli's commentary. $ Introduction to Pañctāstiltīyasūra, p. vii etc., Vol. III of the Sacred Books of the Jainas IW SBT): whAnAVAT I refer to the opinions of Prof. Chakravarti, the reference is to this
