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**Praise to Samantabhadra**
I bow down to the supreme Samantabhadra, adorned with the jewels of right knowledge, right principles, and right reasoning, who has dispelled the darkness of the Kali Yuga and is pure. ||2||
-Devaagama Vritti. In this verse, the description of Samantabhadra's "mat" (doctrine) as Lakshmi-bhrut (possessing wealth), supreme, bestowing the bliss of liberation, dispelling the evils of the Kali Yuga, and pure, is very touching. It suggests that Samantabhadra's reign was adorned with the pearls of right knowledge, right principles, and right reasoning, and that it would dispel the ignorance of those who embraced it. This clearly indicates that Samantabhadra's Syadvada doctrine was very influential. The brilliance of the Kali Yuga must have dimmed in the face of his brilliance, and therefore, influencing the Jain Tirtha in the Kali Yuga was a special task of Samantabhadra.
In another sense, it seems better to simply accept that before Samantabhadra, the glory of the Syadvada Tirtha had almost disappeared. Samantabhadra revived it and infused it with extraordinary strength and power. The inscription on the lower rock at Shravanabelagola also suggests the same, indicating that the Jain path (Syadvada path), which is beneficial to all, has become prosperous in all directions in this Kali Yuga due to the efforts of Acharya Samantabhadra, the leader of the monastic order:
"Acharyasya Samantabhadraganabhrudyenekale kalau Jainam vartma Samantabhadram abhavadbhadram samantamuhuh" ||
-54th inscription.