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Kavyanusasana temple. * He also showed his miraculous power by making a buffalo-driver who was fetching water from a lake and whose education consisted of two syllables 'Tha - ja,' compose and recite a poem as if he were a learned man, by simply putting his hand on the man's head.
Şrīpāla put a watch on Devabodha's activities and found out that he was not quite the ascetic he pretended to be. But he did not succeed in discrediting Devabodha in Jayasimha's eyes, and when Devabodha wanted to leave Jayasimha to his 'vulgar assembly,' ( ईदृग्ग्राम्यनटग्रामे संयोगः सदृशोऽस्तु वः। २६८) it was with great difficulty that he was persuaded to stay. Within three years, however, Devabodha became vey poor.
Hemachandra had come to know of this quarrel. He, however, fully knew the worth of Devabodha. In Hemachandra's opinion, in these days, there is no learning except in this man'* Devabodha also fully knew the worth of Hemachandra and when he came for a visit, he paid to Hemachandra the compliment which he alone knew how to pay. + Hemachandra succeeded in making Srīpāla and Deva bodha friends; for as the Pra. Cha. says, it is the first duty of the ascetics to pacify quarrels.'•. At the suggestion of the poet-laureate
* एको रागिषु राजते प्रियतमादेहार्धहारी हरो
नीरागेषु जिनो विमुक्तललनासंगो न यस्मात्परः । दुर्वारस्मरघस्मरोरगविषव्यासंगमूढो जनः ।
शेषः कामविडम्बितो न विषयान् भोक्तं न मोक्तं क्षमः ॥ x दृश्यते नान्यसामान्य संक्रामितगुणोत्तरम् ।
सारस्वतं न कुत्रापि समयेऽस्मिन्न, विना ॥ २८८ ॥ + पातु वो हेमगोपालः कम्बलं दण्डमुद्वहन् ।
षड्दर्शनपशुग्रामं चारय जैनगोचरे ॥ आद्यो धर्मो व्रतस्थानां विरोधोपशमः खल ॥
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