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great love he bore to his son, refused his consent. Changadeva, however, with the consent of his maternal uncle, followed the sūri to Cambay and was consecrated in that city,
Devasūri seems to have seen the boy before and looking to his tendencies, thought that he would be a successful monk, and in order to get him, used Nemināga as his agent.
On behalf of the Sūri, Nemināga tried to obtain the consent of Chachcha to Changadeva's consecration, but when he failed, the sūri seems to have taken advantage of Chachcha's absence from home and begged the boy from his mother, as the later chroniclers relate. Fearing that he would lose the boy if he stayed any more in Dhandhukkapura, he went to Stambhatirtha to seek the support of Udayana, an influential member of the community. Chachcha seems to have followed him to Stambhatirtha as he did not like that his son should be consecrated and was persuaded to deliver up the boy through
2. Somaprabha, Kumārapalapratibodha,pp. 9-10; Chaturvimsatiprabandha, p. 52, Prabhāvakacharita, XXII, 26, 34, Prabandhachintāmani ( Tawney's translation ), pp. 127-9, Kumārapalaprabandha, pp. 10–11 differ in omall details. Their accounts are discussed in the sub
sequent paragraph. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
