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 Systems of Sanskrit Grammar § 47 - ] Dr. Kielhorn once believed that Pujyapāda was a nom de plume assumed by a late writer, with the view all the more readily to make the work pass under the name of the last Tirthankara. The historical existence of the founder of this school thus doubted by Dr. Kielhorn has been conclusively established by Professor Pathak,¹ who quotes a verse from the Nandisangha Pattavali and gives other references to prove that Devanandi was no other personage than Pujyapada himself. 64 48. Date of the Jainendra-vyakarapa.-The foundation of this school dates from about the same time as that of the Chandra. If anything, the Jainendra would come a little before the Chandra. Professor Pathak in his paper on the Jaina Sakaṭāyana (Indian Antiquary, Oct. 1914) gives evidence to assign the Jainendra-vyäkaraṇa to the latter part of fifth century A. D. Among his arguments are: 1. the fact that the Kāśikā seems to betray a knowledge of the Jainendra-vyakaraṇa; 2. the circumstance that the Jainendra sutra alludes to Iśvarakrishna the author of the Sankhya-kārikās (who is assigned by Dr. Takakusu to A. D. 450) and to the twelve year cycle of Jupiter ac- cording to the heliacal rising system a system which was in vogue in the time of the Early Kadamba kings and their contemporaries, the Early Gupta kings; and 3. the col- lateral evidence to be drived from later references to the Jainendra from the ninth century on. Thus the Sakata- 5 1 Indian Antiquary xii, pp. 19 ff. 4 Sūtra iii. 3.134- 2 A fiat at xer- afgererent gràft Sporten 3 Kasika iii. 3.40 T: presupposes Jainendra sutra ii, 3. 36 xareasured. 1 Contrast Papini, iv. 1.102. The Amo- ghavritti of Sakaṭāyana ex- plains mat, the latter being another name for Tévarakrisbna. , as Kasika could not have derived it from else- 5 Sätra iii. 2.5 where.