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Ujjayin took initiation into the rama a order along with his wife and son Ke . The young monk Ke not only had the knowledge of his past life but was also well-versed in scriptures. In time, he defeated the propagator of sacrificial rituals, Mukumda c rya in a religious debate. Sensing his last day's
c rya SamudraS ri gave the c rya position to Ke and attained nirva destroying all his karmas in P r va-samvata 166.
rya Ke rama a: The fourth epochal- c rya of Lord Pr van tha's tradition was rya Kerama a. rya Ke rama a was a young monk who held the knowledge of the fourteen p rvas, and of four types of knowledge completely (i.e. mati, ruti and avadhij na and manah paryavaj na). With great competence he brought together the rama a order and made them firm and sent monks in Obatches of five each under the leadership of scholar monks in different far-flung places and he himself stayed in Madhya Prade a with one thousand monks while propagating and propounding the Jain religion. He was
c rya from P r va-samvata 166 to 250, i.e. 84 years and in the end making Svayamprabha Sri his successor, attained liberation.
Through his religious teachings he converted king Prade of vet mbik from a firm atheist to a believer. As a result king Prade accepted the lay-person's conduct and setting aside one-fourth of his kingdom's wealth for charities, giving up worldly pleasures, got immersed in observing cha habhakta fasts. Seeing her husband's disinclination towards kingly duties queen S rik nt desired to make her son the king and on the day of her husband's fast breaking, gave him poisonous food. The moment Prade felt the effects of the poison he learnt of all this but without any resistance or ill-feelings, giving up his life in meditation, became a god S ry bha in Saudharma-kalpa with extraordinary powers.
We find two monks by name Ke in the scriptures. One is Ke rama a who gave a religious teaching to king Prade and the other, Ke kum ra, who accepted the five mah vratas of the C tury ma tradition in r vatth city, after the debate with Gautama the second Ga adhara.This question is open to debate as to who was the fourth epochal- c rya of Lord Pr van tha's traditioon? c rya RajendraS ri gives an introduction to
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