Vidyananda

 ( Indian Jain Monks ) 

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