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Quru gave them Diksã and began to teach them. After their altaining great abitily in religious scienees, they were granted Āçârya-ship and Sreedhara was named as Jinéswar Suri and Śreepati was named as Būddhisagara Sūri. Śri Buddhisagara Säri has composed a new grammar called "Buddhisagara' containing 8000 verses. Jineswar Sūri had a pupil named Jinavallabha. Jinéswara Sūri became Caityavāsi. One day when Jinavallabh was reading with the teacher Sree Dasa-vaikâliksútra, he could learn the duties of the ascetics in details. Hence he asked his Guru regarding the latter's indolence in the matters of the performance of his daily functions Then, the Quru informed him of his' Karmodaya' ( the rest of fate due to good deeds). There arose a keen desire in Jinvallabha Sari to know the truth, and hence, with the permission of the Guru, he approached Abhayadeva Suri and began to study the religious sciences with greater depth. After studying all the sciences, he attained the state of 'Gitārtha.'
The meritorious Jineswar Sūri who belonged to Kürccapar Gaccha was not Caityavāsi but was the person who defeated Caityavási sect. The same is the opinion of the author of Vir vansavalt Besides hę informs that when Jineswar Sûridefeated the adherents of the Caityavasi sect after a debate with them in the court of Durlabharāį, the latter said, " The Acarya has told the "truth,"-(Kharuim-which means true). Since then, Jine. Śwar sûri has been called 'Kharatar' and the band of his followers was called Kharatara-gaccha If this incident is true, Kharatargaccha started not in 1204 but much earlier; and the original founder of it was not Jinadattâ Sūri but Jineswar Sari Sree Abhayadeva Sûri the Navāngi-commentator was the pupil of none other but of Jineswarsúri, and he also can be considered as 'Kharatar'. Still however he himself has not made a reference to it, in the appreciation of any work. In Pajțāvalı etc it has been mentioned that Kharatar gacchha started from Jindatta Sūri in 1204, and hence, this matter needs consideration. As Sree Jinvallabha Sūri was given Ācarya-ship by Dévabhadrāc'arya on the
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| SR No. | 008006 |
| Book Title | Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 5 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker |
| Publisher | Parimal Publication |
| Publication Year | 1989 |
| Total Pages | 616 |
| Language | English, Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion |
| File Size | 14 MB |