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ideva, flourished in saka 1225 Padmanandi, flouushed in end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century AD and lie was a pupil of Traividyadeva of Kunda Kuudānvaya, 12 Padmanandi Bhattaraka succeeded Prablıācandra on the pontifical seat at Delhi, since V S. 1385 to 1450 (-13281393). He was the author of Bhävanā Paddhali and Jirapalli PārsvanathaStotra 13 This Padmanandi was very popular and he consecrated an image of Adinathia in the year, Samvat 1450 14 He was so famous that some of the scholars presumed that, he was the author of twentyfive small treatiscs known as Padınanandı Pancaviniasati.15 There are some more Pad. manandis16 who flourished in 16th, 17th and 18th centuries A.D. But the author of Padmanandi Panca-vimsati ( in which our present work Atm abodha o Ālocana is also included) seems to be quite different from all these above mentioned Padmanandis, because he is a disciple of Viranandı, the author of Acārasāra with Svopajñavrtti in Kannada language17.
This Padmanandi clearly mentions his guru's name as Viranandi in his works viz. Dhainopadeśāmrtam, Dānopadeśanam and Atmabodha or Alocanā.18 So, he is quite different from other Padmanandis in general, and from the Bhattāraka Padmanandi ( 14th cenury) in particular. It is very difficult to fix the exact date of this Padmanandı, still we can say that, he flourished in the first or second quarter of the 12th century A. D. on the basis of the following observations: Out of 25 small treatises of Padmanandi Ekatvasaptati is very famous and, it is often quoted by Jaina writers. We find verses quoted from Ekatvasaptati, in the works of
(12) Epigraphica Carnatka -ŚB No. -269. (13) Bhattārakasampradaya - P-92. (14) Ibid- P.92 (15) Kartikeyānupreksă - Introduction, - A. N Upadhye (16) (a) Padmanandi (V.S.- 1576) a disciple of Hemacandra- Bhaltāraka Sampra
daya - P. 247 (b) Padmanandi (Samvat - 1600), disciple of Sakalakirti' Ibid-P208. (c) Padmanadı (Samvat - 1683), -pupil of Ramakirti - Ibid - P. 158, (d) Padmanandi (Samvat - 1773), disciple of Candra kirti - Ibid - P. 125
(c) Padmanandi (V.S 1850), disciple of Devendrakirti - Ibid - P. 78. (17) Pravacanasara-Introduction -ed . A.N. Upadhye, P-104. (18) (a) 'Sa Srigururdisalu me munivirapandi'- Dharmopadesámrtam-Verse - 197.
Padmanandi Pancavimšati,ed. AN. Upadhye and H.L. Jaina, Jivaraja
Jaina Grantha mala No-10, Sholapur, 1962' P - 77. (b) 'Ratnatrayabharanaviramunindrpädapadmadvaya Sanjanitaprabhavah'
Danopadeśanam- Ibid - Verse - 54, p - 90. (c) Śrivirena mama prasanna manasä kırcittaduccaiḥ padapräptyartham para
mopadesa Vacanam citte Samáropitam-Atmabodha or Alocană Versc-32 See our Sanskrit Text,
