BDP - Kundakunda

Kundakunda - Collected Information

Uniform Name	Kundakunda (see Dixit 1971: 89)
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Alternative Name	"Padmanandi" (Dhaky 1991: 187)
	"Koṇḍakundācārya" (Dhaky 1991: 187)
	"Elācārya" (Dhaky 1991: 192)
	"Kundakundācārya" (Dhaky 1991: 87)

Related Work	Work Authored by Kundakunda
	Bārasāṇuvekkhā (Ṣaṭpr title; Petit 2013: 18)
	Paṃcatthiyasaṃgaha (Bajželj 2020: 201)
	Pavayaṇasāra (Bajželj 2020: 201)
	Samayasāra (Bajželj 2020: 201)
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Related Person	Teacher of Kundakunda
	Kumāranandin (Dhaky 1991: 190)
	Contempory of Kundakunda
	Śivamāra II (Dhaky 1991: 192f.)

Affiliated Group	Group to which Kundakunda belongs
	Representatives of the Age of Logic (Dixit 1971: 89)
	Tarka-School (Shastri 1952/1990: 22)

Time	Kundakunda's Productive Period
	"last quarter of the eight century A.D." (Dhaky 1991: 193; Dundas 2002: 107)"Although scholarship has conventionally located him in the second or third century CE , hagiographical accounts do not appear until the tenth century, a fact which has prompted a recent radical reassessment of his dating which would locate him after 750 CE ." (Dundas, p. 107)
	Kundakunda's life time
	"c. III e s. de notre ère" (Petit 2013: 2)