Atmabodha (Ālocanā) of Padmanandi (With Introduction and translation)

In the line of Jaina writers, one and the same name is borne by many authors belonging to different periods of time. There have been many Jaina Saints and writers bearing the name Padmanandi and we have been able to list about eighteen Padmanandis from different sources.

Transcribed from the prepared edition. This is the beginning of the article, not a summary — open the PDF to read it in full.

शास्त्री की अंग्रेजी प्रस्तावना और अनुवाद। वे अभिलेखों तथा प्रशस्तियों में उल्लिखित लगभग अठारह पद्मनन्दियों की सूची देते हैं, कुन्दकुन्द के इसी नाम से लेकर चौदहवीं शताब्दी के भट्टारक तक, जिससे आत्मबोध के कर्ता का निर्णय हो सके; फिर तैंतीस पद्यों का अनुवाद सिद्धान्त और पाठ-सम्बन्धी टिप्पणियों सहित देते हैं। Shastri's English introduction and translation. He lists some eighteen Padmanandis named in inscriptions and colophons, from Kundakunda's alias to the fourteenth-century Bhaṭṭāraka, in order to settle which wrote the Ātmabodha, then renders the thirty-three verses with notes on doctrine and on the text's variants.

Written by the archive’s cataloguers, not by the author.