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1 SIDDHASENA DIVĀKARA
there began to issue forth columns of smoke from the idol of Siva and with their pitchy darkness turned the midday into night. The people round about got extremely frightened and began to run away in all directions. Then flames of fire sprang from the idol of Siva and at last the figure of Pārswanātha appeared. The King was im. pressed very much with this miraculous spectacle, got himself initiated into Jaina philosophy, escorted Divā kara in a magnificient procession to the city of Ujjaina and thus glorified the Jaina religion. With this miraculous power of Siddhasena the Sangha was very much imprėssed, absolved Divā kara from the necessity of remaining incognito for 12 years and proclaimed him as Siddhasena Divākara. There in Ujjaina from the idol of Śiva hood of serpents appeared for sometime which the heretics worshipped with devotion,
Once Divā kara went on a religious tour to Southern India with his learned disciples. On his way he came to a promontary near the town Broach. There the cowherd boys from the town and the adjacent villages came to him with a desire to hear his religious sermons. They pressed him to deliver a sermon. Immediately. Divākara' composed a Rāsa in Prāksta dilect which could be easily anderstood by the audience and setting it to a'regular tone and time repeated it dancing in a circle. The Råsa is as follows:
न वि मारिअइ न वि चोरिआइ । परदारह संगु निवारिअइ ।। - que fa enda arxi वसणि दुगु दुगु जाइयइ ।। १६१ ।।
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