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their study of the six darsanas and other subjects fonnected with philosophy. Both Yaśovijaya and ainayavijaya were endowed with wondrous memory, end used to astonish the people with their memorizing Vats. Their Guru's library contained a certain book which had descended to him from his ancestors, and which was only meant to be taught to his own progeny. One day it so happened that Jasulāl was sitting by the side of his preceptor when he was giving lessons to his eldest son from that book. He noticed the embarassment of the old Pandita in explaining a particular passage of the text, and, being a brilliant logician himself, respectfully threw a suggestion as to the true mode of its interpretation. The Guru was delighted with his pupil's intelligent explanation, and acceded to his request for a loan of the manuscript for a day. The book contained twelve hundred verses, but both Vinayalāl and Jasulāl managed, between themselves, in the short interval of 24 hours, to commit to memory the whole of it, -Jasulāl 700 verses and Vinayalāl the remaining 500.
It took Vinayavijaya and Yaśovijaya twelve years to complete their course of study, at the end of which they both adopted their original Jaina ascetic's dress. Yaśovijaya succeeded in winning a victory over a great disputant, who surrendered his two diplomas Mahāmahopādhyāya and Nyāya-viśārada. Subsequently, Yaśovijaya also acquired the covetous title of Nyāyācāryal on his composing one hundred works. Yaśo
1. This is borne out by the following verse at the end of the Jainatarka-paribhāṣā:
पूर्वं न्यायविशारदत्वबिरुदं काश्यां प्रदत्तं बुधैयायाचार्यपदं ततः कृतशतग्रन्थस्य यस्यार्पितम् ।
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