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Dr. Charlotte Krause : Her Life & Literature
Mahuva, along with Muni Vallabha Vijaya, and received the monk's name Mangalavijaya. The community celebrated the event with much display, and Dharma Vijaya delivered a beautiful sermon on the Samskệta stanza :
भवारण्यं मुक्त्वा यदि जिगमिषुमुक्तिनगरी
तदानीं मा कार्षीर्विषयविषवृक्षेषु वसतिम् । अतः छायाऽप्येषां प्रथयति महामोहमचिराद्
अयं जन्तुर्यस्मात् पदमपि न गन्तुं प्रभवति ।। 1 ।। For the enlightenment of his new disciples, he narrated and explained the famous allegory of the four damsels Ujjhia, Rakṣita, Bhāșika and Rohiņi, who, in their respective ways of dealing with a handful of unhusked rice, are symbolical of the four classes of disciples, with reference to the way in which they profit of the teachings of their master.
After his initiation, Mangalavijaya nearly always stayed with his revered Guru, accompanying him on all his vast wanderings, as well as during the various halts in the rainy seasons. After frequenting the Jaina Pāțhaśālā of Benares, he passed the Nyāya Tīrtha Examination of Calcutta University in Hindu Logic in 1912, alongwith his brother disciple Nyāyavijaya, and was given the title of Nyāyaviśārada by a committee of Bengal scholars. In 1914, he was given the title of Pravartaka, and in 1923, at Agra, he attained to the title and rank of an Upādhyāya. Since his Guru's death, in 1922, he has always been in the company of his brother disciples, the eldest of whom, the present Ācārya Itihăsatattva Mahodadhi Vijaya Indra Sūri, succeeded to the rank and title of Vijaya Dharma Sūri. Alongwith them, he undertook long tours, especially in Rājaputānā and the Central Provinces, and spent his last rainy season in Bombay, from where the group intends to proceed to the south, in order to carry the light of their faith into these distant regions with their heterodox population, true to the intentions of their great master.
The writer of these few lines feels deeply indebted to venerable Upādhyāya Mangalavijaya for much valuable instruction
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