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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Despite these facts, a few scholar-ascetics of Middle Age carried away by the traditional hostility wanted to prove their gaccha as the true gaccha and other gacchas as fraudulent and the spiritual methods of other gacchas as degenerated. They even indulged in denunciatory remarks about one another.
Up dhy ya Dharmas gara, disciple of Vijayad na S ri, the 57th Pontiff of Tap gaccha criticised D d r Jinadatta S ri in an impertinent language in his text “Pravacana Park - Vol 1'. In his other text 'Kupak a Kau ika Sahasra Kira a', he, in a very rude and reprehensible language criticised ten other sects and gacchas, namely, 1 Digambara, 2 Paur im yaka, 3 Au trika (Kharataragaccha), 4 P acandragaccha, 5 Stanika (Amcalagaccha), 6S rddha Paur im yaka, 7 gamika, 8 Ka uka, 9 L mp kaa (lok gaccha) and 10 B j mat . In this text, apart from trying to prove their gaccha the best, he condemned that the above said sects and gacchas were going against the principle of scriptures and that they did not belong to Jain Congregation at all. This text sparked the fire of contempt in the entire Jain Congregation, in the second decade of Vikram 17th century. In order to pacify the situation billowing with detestation, c rya r Vijayad na S ri, preceptor of Up dhy ya Dharma S gara immersed the book in the waters and Dharma S gara had to beg for forgiveness of the four-fold Congregation, for writing such a text. Seven years after the demise of Vijayad na Sri, his successor-Pontiff, the great influential c rya Vijaya S ri, the spiritual preceptor of Akbar, once again brought the text into light renaming it as 'Pravacana Park ?.
In present times too, hundreds of beautiful gardens of D d , popularly known as 'D d bādies' (mostly located in the vicinity of Jain shrines) with his footprints (cara as) are found at innumerable places (villages to metropolitan cities) even in the distant lands of India. This bears a testimony to the wide range of activities performed and services rendered during his tenure as c rya by the most celebrated Jinadatta S ri to Jina order,. The massive anti-propaganda campaign by the scholars of his opponent gacchas against him was a great fiasco; it could not diminish his popularity and universal acclamation.
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