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CONTRIBUTIOİNS TO LITERATURE, ETC. 43 concludes, “it is evident that the question of the authorship of the book cannot be disposed of without a reference to the tradition among the Digambara Jainas and to their written records. "35 Pancavāstuka, the best commentary on Jainêndra, is also supposed to be the work of Pūjyapāda or Devanandi; and according to Peterson it has for all practical purposes supplanted the original. Pānini-sabdāvatāra is another grammatical work traditionally considered to be a commentary on Pānini's grammar by Pujyapāda. Somadeva refers to Jainëndra together with Panini as grammars taught to the pupils; and Vôpadêva counts it among the eight original authorities on Sanskrit grammar.36
Besides these grammatical works Pūjyapada wrote treatises on other subjects as well. His Kalyānakāraka, a treatise on medicine, long continued to be an authority on the subject, and was translated into Kannada by Jeyaddaļa Somanātha in the twelveth century. The treatment it prescribes is entirely vegetarian and non-alcoholic.37 Mangarāja I (C. 1360 ) also quotes Pūjyapāda, in his Khagendra-maņidarpaņa a work on medicine. 88 Pūjyapāda's Sarvārtha Siddhi is an elaborate commentary on the Tattvārtha-sútra of Umāsvāti, comprising about 5,500 s/lokas ; and Upāsakācāra is a short handbook of ethics for the Jaina laity.39 He appears to have travelled widely in South India and gone so far North as Videha or Behar. The founder of the Drāvida-Samgha at Madura ( saka 526 ), Vajranandi, is supposed to have been his disciple. 40 Pūjyapāda has also been described as the preceptor of Durvinīta Ganga ( 483-512 A.D.); whereas Niravadya Pandita, preceptor of Jayasimha II, (Cālukya ) has been called the house-pupil of Sri Pūjyapāda. According to Bhandārkar,
35 Peterson, op. cit., p. 69. 36 Rice (E. P.) op. cit., p. 110, 37 Ibid., pp. 37. 37. 38 Ibid., p. 45. 39 Hiralal, op. cit., p. XX. 40 Cf. Petonon, op. cit. III, p. 877. JK0-2628-10
| SR No. | 011062 |
| Book Title | Jainism and Karnataka Culture |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | S R Sharma |
| Publisher | Karnataka Historical Research Society Dharwar |
| Publication Year | 1940 |
| Total Pages | 263 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 9 MB |