Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrashastra

Author(s): Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, K V Abhayankar
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab

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INTRODUCTION
According to Tapāgaccha Pattāvali of Upadhyaya Sri Dharmasagara however it was Sri Anandavimalasūri pupil of Sri Hemavimalasūri who appointed him as the presiding deity of Tapāgaccha.
ŚRI JINACANDRASORI Sri Jinacandrasūri was born at Vadali village near Timarinagar or at Khetasara in Jodhpur of Shah Srivant and Siriyādevī parents of Rihadagotra and Oswal Caste in 1595 Vikrama era and was named Sultan Kumara. He was initiated in 1604 and named Sumatidhīra and ordained Achārya in 1612 and named Jinacandrasūri at Jesalmere when the occasion was celebrated by Raut Māladeva King of Jesalmere. At the instance of Karmasimha son of Minister Saņgrāmasimha 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 Sādhus 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 (Sada) and Somjee two non-Jain brothers of Prāgvāt caste rich and they embraced the Jain faith with their families. He installed quadruple Jinas on Sri Satsuñjaya and repaired and renovated the group of temples in Kharataravasahi there. Sadā and Somjee also built a temple of Sri Santinātha in Dhanā Suthāra's Pole at Ahmedabad and installed therein an idol of their preceptor Sri Jinacandrasūri. As stated in Kharatara Pattā vali he established be fore representatives of 84 Gacchas in 1617 Vikrama era that Sri Abhayadevasūri who composed commentaries on nine Angas belonged to Kharataragaccha and that Kumati-Kuddala a work of Upadhyāya Sri Dharmasāgara of Tapāgaccha 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 Upādhyāya Sri Dharmasāgara, flew open in 1632 Vikrama era. Emperor Akbar heard about him through minister Karmacandra and invited him to his court. On Făgana Sud 12th 1648 he