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the Suri had images of Śrî Rsabha Jinesvara and others installed in the Caturmukha Vihāra erected by the merchant Dhana or Dharana.
Śrī Somasundara Sūri was author of Yogśastra Bâlâvabodha, Upadešamālā Balávabodha, Sadavasyaka Bålāvabodha, Navatattva Balāvabodha, Caityavadana Bhāsyāvacûri, Kalyāpa Stava, Neminatha Navarasaphāga, Āradhana-patākā Balāvabodha, and Sastisataka Bālāvabod ja.
Amongst his other learned pupils were Jinamaņdana, Jina. kirti, Somadéva, Somajaya, Visalarāja, Udayanandi, and Subharatna. He expired in V. S. 1499.
Krşpasarasvati Sri Jayasundara Sūri. When Somasundara Säri was requseted by Govinda, brother to Srivatsa of Idara, to bestow the status of an icārya on some worthy disciple, it was awarded to Vacasa Śri Jayasundara. Being aware of his excellent capacity for study, the preceptor had entrusted to him the task of teaching fresh pupils He read with these pupils such treatises as the Kāvyaprakasa and Sammatitarka. On the fifth day of the bright half of the month of Vaišākha in V. S. 1505 he installed an Image of Sri Abhina dana Swămin in Delavådā, which image exists to-day in the Jaina temple of Āghata or Āhaça. Some give his name as Jayacandra Sūri. By virtue of his learning, he was awarded the title of Krsna Sarasvati or Krsnavägdevatá He has also written some works, chief of which are the Pratyākhyāna Sthana Vivarana, Samyaktva Kaumudi, and Pratikramaņa Vidhi.
At his instance, a Srimāli merchant of Anahillapura Patana, Parvata by name, got composed a hundred thousand works out of which the Piņça Niryukti Vrtti still lies in the Jaina library of Viramgām
Śri Bhuvanasundara Sūri When Sri Somasundara Suri visited Delavāda a second time,
*For a complete account of Sri Somasundara Sari's life vide Somasaubhagya Kavya of Pratiştāsoma.
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