Jain Legend Vol 3

Author(s): Hastimal Maharaj, Shuganchand Jain, P S Surana
Publisher: Hastimal Maharaj Shugan C Jain P S Surana

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c ryas. In his heart he thought that until he takes revenge against the Buddhist cryas for this episode, his heart will always be pained by this thorn.
With the deep resolve to take revenge for this episode, he left his monastery without even seeking the permission from his teacher. He went straight to King S rap la. He paid respectful thanks to King S rap la for giving shelter to Paramahamsa against the might of Buddhist soldiers. Afterwards they both planned a plot to defeat the Buddhist scholars. Accordingly King S rap la sent an expert in diplomacy and intelligent adviser to the Kingdom of Buddhist rulers and invited the Buddhist c ryas to his court for scriptural discourse. He prepared the Buddhist c ryas for the scriptural discourse and got an undertaking signed that whosoever is defeated in the scriptural debates shall jump in the pan of boiling oil and ends his life.
After three four days, the Buddhist c rya accompanied with his disciples and by a large contingent of army arrived in the court of King S rap la and started the scriptural debate with c rya Hari Bhadra. While starting the debate with Hari Bhadra, the Buddhist c rya started with explanation of Buddhist doctrine of momentary nature of reality.
c rya Hari Bhadra in a short time with his refutations of their discourse made them speechless and defeated the Buddhist crya.
The Buddhist c rya was thus declared defeated by the elders. As per the agreed terms of the debate, the Buddhist c rya had to jump in the pan with boiling oil. He died. After this other Buddhist scholars, one after the other lost in debates with Hari Bhadra and had to jump in the pan with boiling oil and die.
Afterwards a wave of hopelessness prevailed amongst the remaining Buddhist scholars. They started rebuking their ruling deity. The deity appeared and said, 'Forget the pain and go back (retreat) to your respective places. Do not get involved in debate with this Jain c rya.' After saying this, that deity disappeared. The remaining Buddhist scholars went back to their places.
When Jinabha a heard of this miraculous act of his disciple Hari Bhadra from his other disciples, he immediately left to meet King S rap la. He pacified Hari Bhadra out of his deep anguish with his serious and sweet
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