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received any colouring matter the candidate must be deemed to have failed in his attempt. In the morning, the sermon proceeded, and the Brāhmaṇa Panditas came as usual to carry on their debates. They read the verse and the remarks on the door, and, finding themeselves unable to fulfil the condition, went away. The sermon went on without any hitch, and the Śrāvakas were pleased. Subsequently, Yaśovijaya, when asked by the Brāhmaṇas to repeat his verse according to his condition successfully performed the feat, as he had acquired the proper knack of doing so by long practice. Though the matter should have ended here, Yaśovijaya offered his readiness and willingness to open regular debates. He defeated his adversaries in argument; and in consequence five hundred Brāhmaṇas became converted to Jainism, in fulfilment of the condition transcribed on a copperplate in the State assembly. (It is said that this copper-plate is still preserved in some Upāśraya temple or Bhaṇḍār at Cambay).
Vinayavijaya passed the rainy season of S. Y. 1716 at Surat, and of S. Y. 1723 at Gandhār, in Marwar, where he finished his composition Santasudha-rasa. He spent the Caumasa (rainy season) of the Samvat Years 1729 and 1738 at Rander in Gujarat, and died at that place towards the end of 1738, leaving his Gujarati work Śrīpala Rāsa half finished. This unfinished work was completed by Yaśovijaya.1
1. Refer to the last prasasti of the said Rāsa.
सूरि हीर गुरुनी बहुकीर्त्ति, कीर्त्तिविजय उवझायाजी । शिष्य तास विनयविजय वर, वाचक सुगुण सोहायाजी । विद्या विनय विवेक विचक्षण, लक्षण लक्षित देहाजी । सोभागी गीतारथ सारथ, संगत सस्वर सनेहाजी ।
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