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The whole of the seventeenth century is marked by his own self and his disciples. Even during his life-time poems, both in Sanskrit and in Gujarati, were composed with himself as the central figure. Indeed did Sri Hîravijayasûri put the morality and worth of the faith on a very high level, and adorned the mansion of religion with the spire of glory. *
39. Sri Vijayasena Sūri. Birth V. S. 1604: Initiation V. S. 1613 : La dita V. S. 1626: Ācārya V. S. 1628 : Demise V. S 1671 Total Life-time 67 yrs.
Said to be the thirty-fifth descendant of King Devad, Sri Vijayasenasûri was born at Nădlãi in Mārvād on the full-moonday of the month of Falguna in V. S. 1604. His father's name was Karmāshāh and his mother's Kodimade, his own original jame being Jesingh. He was initiated, along with his mother, at Surat by Sri Vijaya Dāna Sūri, who immediately after-ward handed him over to Sri Hiravijaya Sūri as a disciple of the latter.
(1) Sürituara ne samrät, (2) Hiravijayasuri Rása, (3) Labhodaya Rasa, (4) Karmacandra Copăi, (5) Krpärasa Kosa, (6) Kham. bhätani tirthamālā, (7) Hiravijayasuri Katha Prabandha, (8) Hira. saubhāgya Kavya, (9) Jagadguru Kavya, (10) Jaina Rāsamalá Part I, (11) Vijaya Prasasti Kävya.
In due course, he grew well-versed in the Scriptures and consequently was awarded the tite of a Pandita at Khambhāta in V. S. 1626. When, after two years in V. S 1628 the status of an Ācávya was bestowed upon him, the occasion was well celebrated by Mülā Sheth and Vipă Părekh.
Many virtues of his able preceptor were observed in him too. In the absence of his gave, who had gone to Fatch Pur
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