Vidyananda
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Vidyananda was a Digambara logician, scholar and Jain monk in Pataliputra.[1][2] He was born in 750 AD and died in 800.[3] He wrote Ashtasahasri which is a commentary on Samantabhadra's Devagamastotra.[2][1] Madhvacharya, a Hindu philosopher has mentioned Vidyananda.[1] Another digambara acharya with the same name flourished in the 20th-century India.[4]