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Rṣabhadeva was installed therein.
Even to-day it is
This is the account given in the PrbahaIs it historically authentic?
being situated," vaka Carita,
10. It is said in the Prabha vaka Carita that sometime after the death of King Vikrama, a certain Jaina devotee made some repairs in some temple at Girnar and during these repairs he found some old documents from an old monastery. From these written documents the account of the life of Divakara had been taken. Is this statement reliable ? What is the basis of the account given in the Prabhavaka Carita as well as in the Prabandha Cintamani ? What version among the two is more trustworthy?
We admit that the account about the Acaryas as is found in the composition and Pattavalis is sometimes fragmentary and mutually conflicting in many places, and as such is not entirely trustworthy. Naturally therefore, the questions, that we have raised above, can never be incontravertibly answered with the help of the materials at our disposal at present. We, therefore, state below in brief our own guesses and inferrences based on the materials at present,
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1. In the Prabhavaka Carita, the only mention about Arya Skandila is that he was the preceptor of Vṛddhavadi and belonged to Vidhyadharavara Āmnāya. This word indicates either the Vidyadhara Gaccha or the branch of Vidyadhara.
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