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INTRODUCTION
According to Tapāgaccha Pattavali of Upadhyaya Sri Dharmasagara however it was Sri Anandavimalasūri pupil of Sri Hemavimalasūri who appointed him as the presiding deity of Tapāgaccha.
ŚRI JINACANDRASURI
Sri Jinacandrasuri was born at Vadali village near Timarinagar or at Khetasara in Jodhpur of Shah Srīvant and Siriyadevi parents of Rihadagotra and Oswal Caste in 1595 Vikrama era and was named Sultan Kumara. He was initiated in 1604 and named Sumatidhira and ordained Acharya in 1612 and named Jinacandrasūri at Jesalmere when the occasion was celebrated by Raut Maladeva King of Jesalmere. At the instance of Karmasimha son of Minister Sangramasimha he went to Bikaner after effecting Kriyoddhāra by reinstating the old religious practices and observances. There he triumphed over the advocates of the heretic doctrine deprecating idol-worship. He also compelled fallen Yatis to give up the garb of Sadhus and put on turbans as an insignia of house -holders and made others follow religious injunctions strictly. By his prophetic and miraculous powers he made Sivā (Sadā) and Somjee two non-Jain brothers of Pragvat caste rich and they embraced the Jain faith with their families. He installed quadruple Jinas on Sri Satṛuñjaya and repaired and renovated the group of temples in Kharataravasa hi there. Sada and Somjee also built a temple of Sri Santinatha in Dhana Suthara's Pole at Ahmedabad and installed therein an idol of their preceptor Śrī Jinacandrasuri. As stated in Kharatara Pattavali he established before representatives of 84 Gacchas in 1617 Vikrama era that Sri Abhayadevasūri who composed commentaries on nine Angas belonged to Kharataragaccha and that Kumati-Kuddāla a work of Upadhyāya Sri Dharmasagara of Tapagaccha contained wrong statements and was not authoritative. By his miraculous powers the doors of the Jain emple at Falodhi, which were locked to bar his entry to the temple by the followers of Upadhyāya Sri Dharmasagara, flew open in 1632 Vikrama era. Emperor Akbar heard about him through minister Karmacandra and invited him to his court. On Fagana Sud 12th 1648 he
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