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Introduction
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According to the P. C., however, Hemachandra accompained Devasūri to the debate. Probably he was there either in the capacity of a junior counsel on the side of Devasūri or merely as a curious spectator of the show.
Jayasimha being greatly pleased with the success of Devasūri presented him with a big sum of money which, however, the latter being a Suvihita, did not accept. The money was spent in building a temple at the suggestion of the minister Aşuka, in which the idol of the first Tirthamkara was istalled by four Sūris - Devasuri being presumably one of them - in the year V. S. 1183-A. D. 1127.
Devasūri's magnum opus was a treatise on logic known as Pramānanaya - tattvālokālamkāra and the commentary on it known as Syādvāda-ratnākara. He was helped in this work by two of his students Bhadreşvara and Ratnaprabha. He wrote several other works and left a number of learned pupils - of which Māņikya, Asoka, and Vijayasena are mentioned in the M. K. C. +
Vādi Devasūri died at the ripe old age of 83 years in the year V.S. 1226-A. D. 1170 in the reign of Kumārapāla.
We may, here, say something, about Devabodha and Srīpāla, both of whom were great favourites of Siddharāja though their mutual relationship was anything but friendly. Probably they were jealous of each other for the royal favour.
+ See the Samskļta introduction of Mupi Himanşuvijaya to P. N. T. L.
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