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INTRODUCTION
He was scolded by his preceptor for being cruel to his pupils and taunted that if he was so anxious to make his pupils great disputants why did he not himself go to the Court of Bhoja and defeat his famous disputants. On that he vowed to do so and ultimately went there and defeated all the disputants of the Court of King Bhoja. He was not, however, discreet and pointed out mistakes in the work on grammar composed by the king himself and would have been punished for his audacity but with the help of the poet Dhanapāla he secretly escaped from his Upåśraya and safely reached Gujarat. He was a Caityavāsi as in fact his grand preceptor Govindasūri owned a Jain temple at Patan where male as well as female dancers used to dance on ceremonious occasions such as Parvas. When he entered the town of Dhārā and also on his return to Pátan he rode an elephant. All this goes to show how Caityavāsis flourished at the time at Patan.
ŚRI JINEŚVARASORI We would now note the fact that Sri Jinesvarasūri defeated in debate Caityavāsi Sädhus at Patan in the presence of King Durlabharāja in s. y. 1080. According to the followers of Kharataragaccha the leader of the Caityavāsis who lost in the debate was Sūrācārya. At the date however Durlabharaja was not the ruler of Patan. From this day reformists gained ascendance and Caityavāsis became gradually extinct.
Although Caityavāsis met with a reverse in or about s. y. 1080, they did not all disappear from the scene at once. For over a hundred years thereafter we hear about them in some connection or other. Their influence however continued for a long time thereafter and a gradually increasing number of Sādhus continued to be lax in the observance of the rules of conduct laid down for Sadhus; and ultimately about 300 years back they were distinguished under the name of Yatis or Jatis. These may with some justification be called the successors to Caityavāsis as the latter as also Sărūpikas and Siddhaputras were of Parśvāpatyas, Naimittikas and the five kinds of fallen Sādhus viz. Pāsatthas,
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