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them any means, whereupon the Guru, during the stage of half consciousness, said, “You will be able to procure a creeper that can remove venom from the middle part of the bundle of fuel-sticks lying on the head of a person standing near the old gate of the town and by applying its juice on the affected part the pain will subside.' By doing so the poison disappeared, but since then the teacher left off for the whole life all the six «Vigayas' and took an oath to eat the loaf made of 'Juvāra' (Barley)
He is the author of the following books : Sanghāc'āra-Bhäsya vruttı. Kāya-sthiti Bhavasthiti-chapter. Srastā :sharmetyādi-stotra. Prayers with puns 'Ūyam-Uyam-Twam' etc Saya-dhamina-stava. C’aturvimsati-Jin-stavanas (Prayers). Devendrai-ranisham-Punprayer. Jaya-Vruşabhameteya and other prayers. The prayer-Jaya-Vrusabha' was made in the following way.
Once a minister, reciting a poem of eight alliteration said to the great teacher, “No one is able to compose a poem of this kind." The great teacher said, "It is incorrect to say that there is no poet.” The minister then said, “Let me see such a poet.' The Curu said, "I shall show you" Then the great teacher himself composed a poem-Jaya-Vrusabha-of eight alliterations and writing it on the wall showed it to the minister This surprised him and he got a lesson from it. Then Śree Dharmaghosa Ssūri went to heaven in V. S. 1357.
Śree Soniaprabha Sûri succeeded Sree Dharmaghosa Sari as forty-seventh. He prepared Āradhanā Sutra beginning with the words-afa 30 2018 Namı -Uņa-bhanai '. He was born in V. S 1310, He had accepted Dikśā in V S 1321 and he was granted
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