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Kavyanusasana to grasp. + A young Jaina monk of the ascetic type named Muni Chandra attended his lectures standing unknown for a fortnight. When Säntisūri put certain questions to his students, nobody could answer them. Chandrasūri with his permission answered them to his satisfaction, and then narrated his state of affairs. Sāntisūri was very much impressed with him and offered to teach him, at the same time providing him with a residence behind the Mint (Tankasalā), as he being a Suvihita monk had great difficulty to find one. So it appears it took some time, even after the royal permit, before these monks could find an easy footing in Aşahillapura.
Şantisūri, after his debate with Dharma, met a dialectician-come to Anahillapura from Drāvida country, whose name is not given but who is represented as talking in a strange language. He was also worsted.
Şantisūri composed a commentary on the Uttarādhyayanasūtra with whose help Vādi Devasūri a disciple of Mūni Chandra defeated the Digambara dialectician Kumudachandra in the time of Jayasimha. It appears Sāntisūri was responsible for starting a school of logic amongst the Jainas; for we find this Vādi Devasūri composing a big work on the subject known as Pramāṇanayatattvāloka and its commentary Syādvāda - Ratnākara.
Sāntisūri died in the year V. S. 1096 = A. D. 1040.
We find from the copper-plates of Bhīma that his Mahā Sāndhivigrahika (Great Minister of War and Peace ) was Sri Chandaşarman. To his minister Dāmodara orDamara we have already alluded. From
+ gaat geplazar slaggaT: I uş Pr. Ch. p. 220.
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