Jain Legend Vol 4

SR No.: 007597
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hastimal Maharaj, Shuganchand Jain, P S Surana
Publisher: Hastimal Maharaj Shugan C Jain P S Surana
Publication Year: 2011
Total Pages: 241
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 2 MB

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in course of time, the gaccha of Jinadatta S ri came to be known as Kharatara gaccha.
According to Jinap lop dhy ya - the author of Gurv val, Jine wara S ri during the spiritual discourse with Temple dwellers, vanquished them and proved them to be heretics & practitioners of asceticism against scriptures, and themselves as followers of scripture-based path of spiritual purification. Thus, Varddham na S ri prevailed over the Temple dwellers by breaking open their invulnerable fort in P a a. As a result, Vasativ sa tradition which had disappeared from P a a for centuries, once again laid its auspicious foundation there.
Prabh candra S ri, the author of Prabh vaka Caritra, presented an exact opposite version from that of Jinap lop dhy ya, regarding the re-entry of Vasativ s s into Pa a a. He clearly states that no spiritual discourse or debate ever took place between Vasativ s Jine wara S ri and the Temple dwellers in the court of Durlabhar ja. Instead King Durlabhar ja humbly requested the Temple dwellers to allow the virtuous Vasativ s s, who came all the way from distant places to stay in A ahillapura Pa a a. Consenting to the king's request, the Temple dwellers allowed Varddham na S ri, et al to stay in A ahillapura Pa a a.
c rya Prabh candra S ri authored the book Prabh vaka Caritra in Vikram 1334, i.e 29 years after Jinap lop dhy ya, scripted the text 'Gurv val'. In the 'eulogy' of his book, he clearly mentioned ‘in the history of the preceding c ryas elucidated in my work, Most of the c ryas belonged to different traditions. Because of the differences in tradition or due to lack of complete information about all the traditions, there are bound to be some mistakes in my presentation. So I request the scholar-readers to research and reform my mistakes.'
In such a situation, no scholar will be prepared to accept whatever he wrote in Prabh vaka Caritra as the final and authentic evidence, about how the Vasativ sa tradition was brought into prevalence by Jine wara Sri in A ahillapura Pa a a. In spite of thorough research, not even single evidence is available in complete Jain literature in support of the narration of Prabh candra S ri. In contrast, apart from the Gurv val (Kharatara gaccha) written 29 years before Prabh vaka Caritra, Jinadatta Sri, in his 'Ga adhara S rddha ataka' clearly described that Jine wara
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