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Swami Samantabhadra.
• There is a clear declaration of a debate; rather, in the second verse, by naming the places where the debate's drum was beaten before, the purpose of this journey is also revealed as 'debate'. Readers should think, was the purpose of Samantabhadra's journey 'debate'? Can it be called polite and civilized behavior for a respected person to be ready to fight and quarrel in response to a question of introduction asked politely by another person, or to declare a debate? And can such an answer be imagined from great men like Samantabhadra? Never. If there had been no declaration of debate in the fourth line of the first verse, that verse could have been made a part of the answer on this occasion; because it mentions Samantabhadra's wearing many different clothes in many places. * But the second verse is completely irrelevant here—it is a verse spoken in the court of the king of 'Karhatak' city, as has been mentioned earlier in 'Gunādi-Parichay'. It is also clearly written there that I have now reached that Karhatak (city) which is full of many scholars, a place of intense learning and full of people. In such a situation, readers can understand for themselves that in response to the king of Banaras' question, it would be said by Samantabhadra that now I am in this Karhatak city
* It has been mentioned that "In Kanchi I became a naked actor (Digambar Sadhu), - there my body was stained with dirt; in Lambush I became a wearer of the Pandupinda form (Sadhu with ashes smeared); in Pundrodar I became a Buddhist monk; in Dashpur city I became a Mrishtbhoji Parivrajaka, and in Varanasi I became an ascetic (Shaiva Sadhu) with a bright Pandura body like Shiva; O King, I am a Jain Nirgranthavadi, whoever has the power to debate with me, let him come forward and debate.
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