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When he was at Anahilapura, Devabodha, a foreign scholar, challenged the learned men of the oity to tell him the meaning of a verse in Sanskrit. When no body could explain the verse, Devasūri silenced Dovabodha by telling him the meaning of the verse.32
In V. Samvat 1179, the sūri performed the opening ceremony of a Jain temple built by Bābada in Anabilavāda.33 We do not know who this Báhada was. He might have been the son of Udayana; but nothing can be said with certainty.
Devasūri then went to Nagor. Devabod ba who happened to be there, praised him very much before kivg Albadana who received the sūri with great honour. 34
In V.S. 1180 ( A. D. 1124), Devasuri lived in Karnāvati in the temple of Ariştanemi during the four months of the rainy season and acquired for him great fame as a learned man by his stirring sermons. Kumudachandra, a Digambara dialeotician who had won several logical disputes, was at that time in Karnāvati. He was a southerner and the guru of Jayakeğin, king of Karnatak and maternal grand father of Siddharāja. He was the incarna
32 Ibid, pp. 273-4, 33 Ibid, p. 274. 34 Ibid, p. 275. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com