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2. Jāvada of the Tapā-gaccha
This other Jāvada was a cousin of Jasadhīra (K.P. st. 31-42), his mother Suhagū being the youngest paternal aunt of the latter. Jāvada's father was Rājamalla, who, though K.P.( st. 41 f.) merely mentions his name, was a person of some consequence according to other sources to which we shall revert later.
The main biographer of Jāvada and his family is the Jaina poet Sarvavijaya Gaņi, whose monastic lineage! goes back to the 50th Tapā-gaccha pontiff Ācārya Somasundara Sūri18. He is the author of two Saṁskṛta Mahākāvyas, the Ananda-sundara ( An.)19 and the Sumati-sambhava ( Su. )20, both preserved in manuscripts, but not yet accessible in print.
The Ananda-sundara ( sub-title Daśa-śrāvaka-carita ) renders, as both the titles indicate, the stories of the foremost ten laymen of Mahāvīra, starting with Ananda, the first of them. It is based on the canonical Uvāsaga-dasão, the 7th Anga, and has 8 adhikāras. It must have been composed very shortly before the copying year of the oldest Ms., S. 1551, as it mentions Jāvada's idol installations of S. 1547 ( An. Prasasti, st. 16 ) and seems to presuppose Jāvada's Guru, Ācārya Sumatisādhu Sūri2, the 54th Tapāgaccha pontiff, who died S. 1551, as still alive ( 1.9). This work contains, besides various stray references to him, a detailed account of Jāvada's family history from the 6th ancestor onward, justified by the fact that the poet wrote this work at Jāvada's suggestion and insistence.22
Sarvavijaya's second poem, the Sumati-sambhava, bears a title which appears, at first sight, tantalizingly familiar to the pious Jaina, as it suggests the names of the two successive Tirtharkaras Sumati and Sambhava, who, in reality, have nothing to do with it. For it is nothing but an account of the life and doings of Ācārya Sumatisādhu Sūri, who was mentioned before already. As it contains a description of Jāvada's idol installations of S. 1547, it
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