Śrī Pūjyapāda

The editor argues that Pūjyapāda, author of the Sarvārthasiddhi and the Jainendra grammar, also wrote medical works: an inscription credits him with a vaidyaśāstra, the Basavarājīya, a work of Nityanātha and the Rasaratnasamuccaya quote his formulas or name him, and Sanskrit and Kannada authors praise him for healing the body by his Kalyāṇakāraka. He rejects the view that the medical Pūjyapāda was a different, thirteenth-century author, and names his medical works as a Kalyāṇakāraka, a Śālākya (śalya) tantra and a Vaidyāmṛta, none of which survives.