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deities. A S', Belgola inscription of 7th July 1432 A. D. refers to the above tradition that the limbs of Pūjyapāda were purified by his obeisance to the Jina in Videha-ksetra. The authenticity of this tradition becomes of a doubtful value because of its indiscriminative_attribution to Kundakunda, Umāsvāti and Pūjyapāda. It is seen above that Kundakunda and Umāsvāti are often confused; and here, with reference to this tradition, Pūjyapāda is added to their list. The epigraphic evidence in this context is very meagre, and the S. Belgola inscription of 1432 A. D. has to say that it is Pūjyapāda , who visited the Videha land. At any rate I am tempted to point out to the third gãthā of Pravacanasāra as the genesis or the fruitful source of the tradition that Kundakunda saluted from here S'rīmandhara in Videha land and that he consequently visited that country; there, in that gāthā, he pays obeisance to the contemporary Arahantas in the Mānusa region.
As to his dispute with Svetāmbaras on the mount Girnar and the consequent admission of Brāhmī that the Nirgrantha creed of Digambaras was true, nothing can be said definitely from this floating tradition ; but, by the by, it may be noted that S'ubhacandra (c. 1516-56 A. D.) also refers to this in his Pāndava-purāna ;3 and the same is noted in a gurvävali too.
SPIRITUAL PARENTAGE ETC. OF KUNDAKUNDA.-Kundakunda is silent about his spiritual parentage in the sense in which the later authors have given their spiritual genealogy: at the end of Bodha-pähuda he mentions that it is composed by the s'isya of Bhadrabāhu, but more on this point later. Inscriptions, too, in this context, are not of much help. According to the gurvāvalī of Nandi-sarigha, Kundakunda was the successor of Jinacandra, the successor of Māghanandi from whom the pattāvalī of Nandi but too much reliance on this pattāvalī to the extent of saying that Kundakunda was the pupil of Jinacandra is hardly guaranteed. Jayasena, in the opening remarks of his commentary on Pancāstilcāya, says that Kundakunda was the s'isya of Kumāranandi Siddhāntadeva. Nothing is known about this Kumāranandi. The Mathura inscription mentions one Kumāranandi of uccanāgarī s'ākhā;' and another Kumāranandi is mentioned in Devarahalli inscription of 776 A. D. Vidyānanda, in his Patraparīkņā, quotes three verses from the work Tādanyāya of one Kumāranandi Bhattāraka. But none of these, in the absence of any clue, can be identified with the guru of Kunda
E.C., II, 64, 254 eto.
C., II, 258. Sundakunda-gani yenojjayanta-giri-nastale / map vatad vādītā Brāhmi prasūna-ghatitā Lalau // 4 "Padmanandi-yurur jūto Balūthūra-ganūgranih /
pasāna-ghatutü yena vâditā s'r Sarasvati ll, quoted in Jaina Hilarshi, Vol. X, p. 382. pade tadiye muni-mánya-urtlau Jinādicandrah, samalhud atandrah: / tato' bhavat paiica sunama-dhamā s'ri-Padmanandi munr-cakravarti //, see p. 3 of the
Introduction to the Ed. of Samayasüra-prabhrtam, Benares, 1914. 6 E.I., I, No. xliii, No. 13, pp. 388-9.
E.C., IV, Nagamangala No. 85; also I. A., 11, pp. 155–61.
See Patraparilsā, p. 3 (Ed. Benares 1913); also see his Pramanaparilsa, p.72 (ba, , kes 1914).
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