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Padmanandi Bhaṭṭarakadeva, 11 a disciple of Hanasoge Bahubali Maladharideva flourished in saka 12 5. Padmanandi, flourished in end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century A.D. and he was a pupil of Traividyadeva of Kundakundāavaya, 19 Padmanandi Bhaṭṭāraka succeeded Prabhacandra on the pontifical seat at Delhi, since V.S. 1385 to 1450 (=13281393). He was the author of Bhavana Paddhati and Jirapalli Pārsvanathastotra. 13 This Padmanandi was very popular and he consecrated an image of Adinatha in the year, Samvat 1450.1 He was so famous that some. of the scholars presumed that, he was the author of twentyfive small treatises known as Padmanandi Pañcavimasati. 15 There are some more Padmanandis 16 who flourished in 16th and 18th centuries A.D. But the author of Padmanandi Pañcavimgati (in which our present work Atmabodha or Alocana is also included) seems to be quite different from all these above mentioned Padmanandis, because he is a disciple of Viranandi, the author of Acarasara with Svopajñavṛtti in Kannada Language. 17 This Padmanandi clearly mentions his guru's name as Viranandi in his works viz., Dharmopadesamṛtam, Danopadegaram and Atmabodha or Alocanã.18 So, he is quite different from other Padmanandis in general, and from the Bhattaraka Padmanandi (14th cenury) in particular. It is very difficutt to fix the exact date of this Padmanandi, 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 95 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 11. Jaina Šilalekha Sangraha-Part-III, Manikacandra D. Jaina Granthamala. p. 387. 12. Epigraphica Carnatika-SB No. 269.
13. Bhaṭṭārakasampradaya-P. 92,
14. Ibid-P. 92.
15. Kartikeyanuprekṣa-Introduetion, -A. N. Upadhye,
16. (a) Padmanandi (V.S.-1576) a disciple of Hemacandra - Bhaṭṭaraka Sampradaya
-P. 247.
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(b) Padmanandi (Samvat-1600), disciple of Sakalakirti Ibid-P. 208. (c) Padmanadi (Samvat-1683), -pupil of Ramakīrti - Ibid-P. 158. (d) Padmanandi (Samvat-1773). disciple of Candrakirti - Ibid-P. 125. (e) Padmanandi (V.S. 1850), disciple of Devendrakirti Ibid--P. 78. 17. Pravacanasara-Introduction -ed: A.N. Upadhye, P. 104.
18. (a) Sa śrīgururdiśatu me muniviranandi — Dharmop adeśāmṛtam-Verse
197. Pad
manandi Pañcavimśati, ed. A N. Upadhye and H.L. Jaina, Jivaraj Jaina Granthamala No. 10. Sholapur, 1962 P. 77.
(b) Ratnatrayabharaṇavīramunindrpāda padmadvaya-sañjanitaprabhavaḥ '--Dānopadeśanam- Ibid Vesre 54, p. 90.
(c) Śrivirena mama prasanna manasa kiñcittaduccaiḥpa daprāptyartham paramopadeśa vacanam citte samaropitam-Alocaṇā-Verse-32 See our Sanskrit Text,
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