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The Acarya (85) checking a press copy.
In Sanskrit he wrote Sankram Karanam in two parts containing four hundred pages in which he made very lucid exposition of the transformation of the karmas. Then he wrote a small but excellent book named Karmasiddhi in which the existence of karmas was proved logically and authoritatively with the support of excerpts from many ancient works.
ompiled the Mārganādvāra, a voluminous work on Jainology defining Marganās and other technical words. He edited Karmaprakrti by Sivasarmasurisvara Maharaj with the vast commentary of Malayagiri, Acarya Haribhadrasuri's Saddarśanasamuccaya with a very learned and lucid commentary by Gunaratnasuri and other several Sanskrit and Prakrit works on karma doctrine. Acarya Danasurisvara Maharaj was pleased with his deep knowledge and self-mortification and bestowed upon him the title of Siddhānta Mahodadhi (Ocean of Principles) in 1935 and made him an Acarya.
Premasurisvara's life was dedicated to the service of Jainism. He travelled more than thirty thousand miles on foot preaching the importance of right conduct and initiated more than three hundred disciples. Some of his disciples like Ramacandrasurisvara, Bhadrankarvijaya, Bhanuvijaya are well-known all over India.
Premasurisvara Maharaj had the power of inspiring his disciples to high thinking and plain living. He employed some of them in the
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