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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main branch and sub-branches) are found in Jain literature in the lives of Jinavallabha S ri and Jinadatta S ri.
Besides Temple dwellers, even the other gacchas of Suvihita traditions also became rivals of Jinavallabha S ri. Owing to this reason Jinavallabha S ri might have probably left Pa a a for Cittauḍa. He never in his life returned to Pa a a. He wandered only in other regions. Thus the life history of Jinadatta S ri, pontiff successor of Jinavallabha S ri reiterates the fact that apart from the Temple dwellers, the other 13 gacchas were also inimical to Jinadatta S ri.
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Devabhadr c rya, while ordaining Jinadatta as the successor of Jinavallabha S ri counselled him to avoid going to A ahillapura for some time and to wander in other places. Jinadatta S ri consented to it.
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One day Jina ekhara committed a mistake in the observance of vows. So Devabhadr c rya expelled him from the congregation. Jina ekhara fell at the feet of Jinadatta S ri requesting him to permit him to stay in the gaccha. Out of compassion Jinadatta S ri granted him permission. 13 c ryas expelled r Jinadatta S ri from gacchas for this offence. So Jinadatta S ri wandered in some other places.
The opposition from both Temple dwellers and some other gacchas against Kharatara gaccha finally might have turned into crisis. This can be inferred from Upade a Ras yana R sa written by Jinadatta S ri in Apabhram a language.
The opponents formed coalition and occupied the reformed temples constructed by the lay devotees following Jinavallabha S ri's preaching and established their authority over them. When the followers of Kharatara gaccha tried to re-establish their authority, the opponent followers of other gacchas succeeded to gain authority over those reformed temples through a royal decree during the regime of King Siddhar ja Jaya Simha. Thus when 8 to 10 reformed temples were usurped by the opponents, Jinavallabha S ri started his protest against this injustice and against lax-conduct of Temple dwellers. The Temple dweller tradition, till then following a policy of conciliation, as and when the situation demanded, maintained its influence on the Pa a a congregation. But enraged with this type of oppugnant activities of
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