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Naya-karnikā
vijaya and Vinayavijaya finally took leave of their Guru and departed from Benares. They separated from one another, and travelled to different places. Vinayavijaya came to Junagadh, in Kathiawad, on pilgrimage to the holy Jaina Tīrtha, Girnar Hills, in S. Y. 1708, in which year he also finished his grand and voluminous work, the Loka-prakāsa. About this time he must have repaired to the seaport Dīva (Dvīpa), where he composed the Naya-karṇikā. Then he went to Radhanpur, in S. Y. 1710, where he composed a commentary on Hemacandra's Grammar, called Haimalaghu-prakriyā.
As the tradition goes, Vinayavijaya halted at Cambay for four months. At this time, Cambay was a great commercial port and its Jaina Śrāvakas were wealthy and prosperous, firm in faith and obedient to the monks. In this town there were many Brāhmaṇa Panditas. They often came and debated with Vinayavijaya, when latter would proceed with his morning sermon (vyākhyāna). On account of this, Vinayavijaya could not go on smoothly with his lecture, and the Śravakas found the constant interruption a source of annoyance, and felt irritated and disappointed. Vinayavijaya sent for Yaśovijaya to put a stop to the disturbance. Yaśovijaya came and devised a novel plan. He wrote out a verse containing a large number of labials and affixed it to the door of the Upāśraya, with a note to the effect that he who wished to debate could enter within and debate only if he could repeat that versa without allowing his lips to come together. The test of a successful fulfilment of the condition consisted in the application of red lead (samdura) to the lower lip, so that if the upper lip
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