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Samantbhadra Swami.
Apart from this, in Kannada inscription no. 149 of Channarayapatna taluk, which is dated Saka Samvat 1047, there is a mention about Samantbhadra that he was 'a propagator of the Shrutakevali lineage and a repository of all knowledge'. As follows:
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Shrutakevaligalulu Palavarum Atithara Aad Imbalike Tatsantano - .
Natiyam Samantbhadra
Vratipara Chalendaru Samastavidyaniidhigal ||
And also in inscription no. 17 of Belur taluk, which is engraved on a stone on the ceiling of the Soumya Nayaki temple inside the premises of the Ramanujacharya temple, and which gives the date of its inscription as Saka Samvat 1059, it is mentioned that after the Shrutakevalis and some other Acharyas, Samantbhadra Swami, following the path of the Tirthankara Shree Vardhamana Swami, achieved a thousandfold increase in the Jain path. As follows:
Shree Vardhamana Swamigal Tirthadolu Kevaligal Riddhiprapt Rung Shrutakevaligalam Param Siddhasadhyar Age Tait.......tyamam Sahasragunam Madi Samantbhadra- Swamigal Sandar... |
From both these mentions, it is found that Swami Samantbhadra, in this Kaliyuga, brought about an extraordinary advancement of the Jain path - the Syadvada Shastra.
1, 2 See 'Epigraphia Karnatica' Volume Fifth (E.C., V.) 3 The English translation of this part by Lewis Rice is as follows: Increasing that doctrine a thousand fold Samantabhadra swami arose.