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lip, so that if the upper lip received any colouring matter the candidate must be deemed to have failed in his attempt. In the morning, the sermon proceeded, and the Brahmana Pandits came as usual to carry on their debates. They read the verse and the remarks on the door, and, finding themselves unable to fulfil the condition, went away. The sermon went on without any hitch, and the Srávakas were pleased. Subsequently, Yasovijaya, when asked by the Brahmanas to repeat his verse according to his condition successfully perforined the feat, as he had acquired the proper knack of doing so by long practice. Though the matter should have ended here, Yasovijaya offered his readiness and willingness to open regular debates. He defeated his adversaries in argument, and in consequence five hundred Brahmaņas became converted to Jainism, in fulfilment of the condition transcribed on a copper-plate in the State assembly. (It is said that this copper-plate is still preserved in some Upâśraya temple or Bhandar at Caınbay.)
Vinayavijaya passed the rainy season of S. Y. 1716 at Surat, and of S. Y. 1723 at Gandhar, in Marwar, where he finished his composition 'Sântasudha-rasa. He spent the Chaumasa (rainy season) of the Samvata years 1729 aud 1738 at Rânder in Gujarat, and died at that place towards the end of 1738, leaving his Gujarati work 'Sripâlas Râsa'
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