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Swami Samantabhadra.
It has been done and in another sense the same Samantabhadradeva has been qualified as 'Paramatma'. As
Samantabhadradevaya Paramārtha Vikalpina. Samantabhadradevaya Namostu Paramatmane ||
From all these things, it becomes even more certain that the said 'Yatipati' refers specifically to Samantabhadra. However, among the qualifications of the said Yatipati, 'Bhettaram Vasupalabhavatamah' is also a qualification, which means 'the one who removes the darkness of Vasupala's feelings'. The word 'Vasupala' generally refers to 'king' and therefore, this qualification suggests that Samantabhadra Swami also removed the darkness of feelings of some king. It is very likely that the king was 'Shivakoti' and he was the chief disciple of Samantabhadra. Apart from this, the word 'Vas' means 'Shiva' and 'Pal' means 'king' and in this way, 'Vasupala' can be interpreted as King Shivakoti; but this imagination seems very complicated and therefore we do not want to emphasize it much.
In Brahma Nemidatta's 'Aradhana-Katha-Kosh', there is also a mention of 'King Shivakoti' - in his Shiva temple, there is a mention of the manifestation of the Jinabimba while reading the 'Bhasmaka Vyadhiki Shanti' and the praise of Chandraprabha Jinendra from the Shiva offering - - - along with this, it is also mentioned that Shivakoti
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1 Shri Vardhamana Swami had removed the darkness of feelings of King Shrenik. 2 Brahma Nemidatta Bhattarak was the disciple of Mali Bhushan and a scholar of the 16th century Vikram. He completed Shri Pal Charitra in VS 1585. Aradhana Katha Kosh was also created around the same time.
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