Kundakunda
c. 1st century CE

aka:   Kundkund, Padmanadi (birthname)
Jain acharya

Digambara sect--Mula Sangh Order

highly respected Jain, especially in south India

reputed to have written Samayasar, Niyamsar, etc....
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Reciting has become such a ritual. The very word
"koran" means reciting – the very word "koran"
means reciting, as if it is meant only to recite.
Nobody even bothers to understand the meaning of
it. I know many Mohammedan friends who can recite
Koran without knowing exactly the meaning; they are
not concerned about the meaning. I know Jaina
friends who can recite Kundkund’s Samayasar
without knowing the meaning. And I know Buddhists,
monks and nuns, who can recite the Diamond Sutra,
the Lotus Sutra, without knowing the meaning at all.
And even if they know the meaning it is going to be
wrong. It is going to be wrong because they are
wrong. The meaning depends on their being...

                                                          --Osho
                     Zen: The Special Transmission, ch. 9