The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.324

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(8) Another inscription on the same stone, immediately below the preceding,³ which records that, on the full-moon day of the month Phâlguna, Saka-Samvat 651 expired, in the thirty-fourth year of his reign, when his victorious camp was at Raktapura, Vijayâditya granted to a Jain named Niravadya-Udayadêvapaṇḍita, who was a house-pupil of Pûjyapâda, and belonged to the Dêva-Gaṇa in the Mûla-Saṃgha, a village named Kardama, on the south of the town of Pulikara for the purposes of the Jain temple called Saṅkha-Jinêndra. The corresponding English date is, approximately, the 7th February, A.D. 730. This record may be of some literary importance; for it seems very possible that the reference in it is to the celebrated Pûjyapâda, the author of the Jainêndravyâkaraṇa, whose proper name was Dêvanandin, and who was also called Jinêndrabuddhi on account of his great learning;⁴ but, whether the record may be accepted as fixing the date of Pûjyapâda, is a question that remains to be fully discussed.⁵