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INTRODUCTION
Mantras and Vidyas which ensured protection to the Sādhaka againstsnakes and success in debates. As Santisūri had achieved extraordinary success in the Sadhana of Sarasvati his grand-pupil also must have been similarly successful. His other Mantric achievements in removing the troubles created by the said Kumudacandra are described in his biography in Prabhāvakacaritra and elsewhere and we need not narrate them here. He performed installation ceremonies in new temples constructed at Falodhi and Arāsaṇa (modern Kumbhāriā near Mt. Abu) in 1204 and died in 1226 Vikrama era.
ŚRI HEMACANDRĀCĀRYA
ŚRI MALAYAGIRI AND SRI DEVACANDRASURI
Tradition says that Sri Devacandrasūri Śrī Hemacandrācārya and Acharya Sri Malayagiri jointly performed the Sadhana of Siddhacakra and obtained boons from the presiding deity. Srī Hemacandrācārya was granted the boon which endowed him with powers to convince king of the truth of the Jain doctrine and to make him accept the Jain faith, Sri Malayagiri obtained the boon enabling him to comment on the Jain canon and Sri Devacandrasuri, by the boon, secured to himself power by which Vira-deities may be at his command so that he might get them transfer temples idols and things from distant places whenever he desired. Now Devendrasuri, the Acharya who actually installed in a temple at Serisă idols brought there in a single night from Ayodhya to Serisa was of Nagendragaccha and flourished later (Circa 1264 Vikrama era). He could not, therefore, be one of the three Acharyas concerned in the aforesaid Sadhana. This anachronism can be explained by the supposition that the Acharya concerned was Devacandrasūri, the preceptor of Sri Hemacandracarya and not the said Devendrasūri. He might have been the recipient of the said boon. He was actually
sance to Sri Rṣabhadeva and then before Sri Ambikadevi he recited a hymn in her praise on which she appeared before him and advised him to return immediately to Patan as his preceptor was destined to die there after eight months from that day. Śri Santisuri is also credited with the restoration of Angavidyă.
