Pujyapada
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Life
Pujyapada is said to have lived from 510 CE to 600 CE.Template:Sfn Born under the name Devanandi to parents Madhava Bhatta and Shridevi,[3] he was a sadhu Digambara monk, as well as a yogi, mystic, poet, scholar, author and master of several branches of learning.[4] As the Devs from heaven used to come to do Puja of his feet Paad, the title of Pujyapaad was given to him. Template:Sfn He was heavily influenced by the writings of his predecessors like Acharya Kundakunda and Acharya Samantabhadra. He is rated as being the greatest of the early masters of Jain literature.[5] He was prominent preceptor, with impeccable pontifical pedigree and spiritual lineage. All of his work was written in Sanskrit, in prose as well as verse form.[6] He was pontiff of the Nandi sangha, which was a part of the lineage of Acharya Kundakunda. He was the tenth guru of the pontifical lineage of the Nandi Sangha. He was born in a Brahmin family of Karnataka.Template:Sfn
It is likely that he was the first Jain saint to write not only on religion but also on non-religious subjects, such as ayurveda and Sanskrit grammar. Acharya Pujyapada, besides being a scholar on Jainism and a mendicant walking in the footsteps of the Jinas, was a grammarian,Template:Sfn master of Sanskrit poetics and of ayurveda.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Pujyapada gave the definition of Dāna (charity) as the act of giving one's wealth to another for mutual benefit in Sarvarthasiddhi.Template:Sfn
Works
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- Jainābhiṣeka (Jain Anointment) - A work on Jain rituals.
- Chandaśāstra (Treatise on Prosody) - A work on Sanskrit prosody.
See also
References
Citations
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- ↑ "Jaina Antiquary". Volume XVIII.1, pp 13-15.
- ↑ Introduction. Jain, Jaykumar.Samadhitantra. First edition, 2006.
- ↑ Page 98, Ibid.
- ↑ Page 98, Jain, Jyoti Prasad. The Jaina Sources of the History of Ancient India. Second, revised edition: 2005.
- ↑ Page 98, Ibid.
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Further reading
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