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The Muni-life and the emergency. How absurd this is, what a grave mistake, and how much artificiality it brings to the story. It seems that Brahma Nemidatta wanted to somehow incorporate these two ancient verses into the story, and in his zeal for that collection, he did not pay any attention to the meaning of these verses. This is why he was unable to give them adequate space in the story or to compile them properly. His writing, "Sphuṭaṁ kāvyadvayaṁ ceti yogīndraḥ samuvāca saḥ," on this occasion, quoting the said verses, greatly diminishes the glory and naturalness of the story. The very declaration of the debate in these verses suggests that Brahma Nemidatta had a debate with Samantabhadra's solitary ascetics before instilling faith in Jainism among the kings; otherwise, there was no need for it on such a great occasion. It seems that Samantabhadra's journey after Kanchi was also undertaken with the first verse in mind. Although there are some errors in it - there, according to the verse, after Kanchi, there is no mention of Samantabhadra staying in Lambusha in the form of "Paṇḍupinḍa" (with ashes smeared on his body), nor is there any mention of his vow to be a Mṛṣṭabhoji while staying in Daśapura - but let these be. The most important thing is that there is no mention in that verse that suggests that Samantabhadra was afflicted with the disease of ashes at that time or that he was
1 Some Jain scholars, while interpreting this verse, have given a phrase "due to illness in the body" instead of giving any meaning to the words "malamalina tanulāmbuśe paṇḍupinḍaḥ," which is not correct. In this verse, at one place "paṇḍu