Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 5

SR No.: 008006
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

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ceremony of «Pratikramana' with the house--holders, (9) On the day of Sama-Vibhaga, the Gitârtlis can visit the place of a house-holder, (10) they can keep the ‘lepa' ( ointment ) with them, and (11) can accept the water recently boiled.
There was a clerk named Vijayacandra who kept account in the house of the minister Vastupāla. Due to some fault of of his, he was imprisoned. Then the Upäú hyāya named Déva -prabha with the condition of giving him Diksă, tried to get Vijayacandra set free from the prison; and then he gave him Dikšā.
In spite of his being shrewd and well-- versed in religious sciences, he was proud and therefore the mininster Vastupäla refused to give him the 'Siiripada 'a the title of Süri, but being entreated by Dévabhadra Upadyaya and thinking that he would to be a helper of Dévéndra Sūri, Jagac'candra Sūri gave him Ācāryaship. He remained polite to Dévéndra Sūri for a very long time.
But when Dévéndra Sûri returned from Mālavä, he did not go to bow to him, and hence Dévéndra Sûri sent him a message to explain why he resided in the same Upāśraya for twelve years. As a reply to this, he said that he being a person without any vanity or interestedness, had no sin in doing so. The ascetics who were well-versed in Knowledge ( San -vijna ) did not accept the new principles of Śree Vijaya C'andra. Śree Dévèndra Sûri lived in the Upasraya full of many 'Samvijna' sages, and hence the people called the group of Vijaya Candra Suri residing in the bigger upāśraya as - Vrüddha - Paushāblika '; they called the group of Dévèndra Sûri residing in smaller resideence as · Laghu - l'aušalika' ('Laghu means small) as that group was known by that name.
The minister Vastupala accompanied by 18000 Śrāvaka devotees accorded very high honour to Śree Dévéndra Sūri who was a shrewd person, who was wellversed in the Knowledge of Sva-samaya (own) and and Para-samaya (other religions sciences),