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Vajra Swami showed his skill at the right moment and maintained the dignity of the Jaina Command (Sasana-Prabhāvanā). His accepting the sadhu's life from his very boyhood and his scholarship are sufficient evidences of his greatness. After his "Swarga-gamana" ( lit.=going to heaven ) these three things-[1] Dasapūrva, [2] Fourth Sainhanana and [3] Fourth Sansthāna -were abolished. Vajra-lineage started after his name.
Nothing is known about-whether Vajra Swāmī had composed some Prakaranas or written some volumés or not. There is nowhere any reference about it. There is an important' reference about him in the 3rd Adhyâya of Mahā Nişītha-Sūtrawhich informs that before Vajraswāmi, Panca-Mangala Mahā. śrut Skandha ( Panca-Namaskāra Sūtra ) was only a separate sūtra; there were commentaries and critical notes etc. written on it, but as time passed on, all of them were destroyed, So Śrī Vajraswāmi composed the Panca Mangala --Mahā Śruta Skandha in its original Sūtras. It also seems that Navkāra. Alantra was formerly an independent Sutra, but after Vajra. Swami arranged it before the sūtras, upto this day it is attached there as the Arambha-Mangala ( a auspicious beginning ) of the Sūtras
Vaira Swami's time was the time of remonstrance. Even in the hard days of famine, Sõdhus preferred fasting to obtaining food by magical powers and eating it when other persons were dying of starvation. Moreover, at that time Idol-worship was also very prevalent. That a man like Vajra Swāmi might take so much pains to bring flowers cleary indicates that Catya-pūjā must have been a prominant part of worshipping in our religion, and that must be the reason why he used all his powers for that
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