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The meaning of the Gatha:
Devendra Sūri was the forty-fifth Pațřadhara, DharmaghosaSäri was forty-sixth. SomaprabhaSuri (the 2nd) was forty-seventh and Sree Soma Tilaka Sari was forty eighth Pattadhara.
व्याख्या-४६ देविन्दोत्ति श्री जगच्चंद्रसूरि पट्ट
...atautst'o gufa fauna II PE NO The meaning of the Vyâkhyā :--
Śree Dévéndra Sûri succeeded Śree Jagac'c'anara Sûri on his seat as forty-fifth Pattadhara. He had preached to Viradhavala the son of a merchant nanied Jinabhadra a resident of Ujjayini--the capital of Mālvā--and had given him Dikšā exactly at the time of his marriage in V. S. 1302. Then, he had preached to the younger brother of Viradhavala after which he wandered for a long time in Mālvå. Then he came to Khambhâta.
The following is the account of Sree Vijaya Candra Sūri who was discarded by Śree Jagaccandra Suri, and who had kept as his disciples the Jain sages who had been indolent and negligent in their religious duties on account of enjoying the following freedom in the canons of religion, and who ( against Jain principle) had resided in the spacious Pauşadha śālā ( the big Upā Śraya ) on account of the entreaties of the people.
The disciples of Śree Vijaya Candra Sûri referred to above, took undue liberty by acting according to these principles :
(1) The Gitarthas can keep different packages tied with cloths; (2) can eat 'Vigaya' everyday; (3) can accept vegetables and fruits with the alms of cooked diet, (4) can wash their clothes everyday; (5) can accept Vigaya' in the ‘Pratyā khyana of Nivî' (6) 'The monks can take the food etc brought by nuns (7) Two kinds of Pratyāklıyāna daily, (8) Consent to perform the
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