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In the citation of 'Uttarapur a', c rya Gu a Bhadra has also accepted that he had taken great help from ‘V gartha Samgraha pur a' composed by the supreme poet. This proves that 'V gartha Samgraha pur a' was available at that time.
Two texts, namely,' tm nu sana' and 'Jina Datta caritra' by Gu a Bhadra are available today.' tm nu sana' with 266 verses is very helpful for discerning and inquisitive followers. 'Jina Datta caritra' is a Samsk ta poetic rendering of history.
Bada gaccha
According to chronological listing of Bada gaccha, 35th pontiff c rya Sarvadeva S ri, teacher of Udyotana Sri established Bada gaccha. According to this gaccha, this gaccha remained active from the time of its founder 35th pontiffc rya Sarvadeva S ri till the time of its eighth crya and according to the details of its chronological listing till the time of 44 h pontiff c rya Jagaccandra S ri. 44h pontiff of Lord Mah v ra's tradition, crya Jagaccandra S ri vowed to observe to observe c mla fast for his entire life. Besides c mla fast, he also used to observe fasts of two days, three days etc to continue his sever penance. After twelve years of observing such fasts and sever penance, he arrived in gh da (Ahada orgh aka) after undertaking routine wandering preaching Jainism on the way. Āghāda at that time (Vikram 13th century) was the principal and capital of Mewāda. Hearing stories of his large praise of the sever penance undertaken by him, the king of Mewāda also started praising him and adorned him with the title of “Tap' or the purified one. Before endowment of this title on c rya Jagaccandra S ri by the king, monks and followers of this gaccha were known as Badagacch y or belonging to Bada gaccha. But due to the popularity of
c rya Jagaccandra S ri s “Tap', this gaccha started being called as Tap gaccha in Vikram 1285.
Writings found in Jain literature are as follows:
'Once upon a time after completing his pilgrimage of Arbud cala, Udyotana S ri was coming down from mount b and was resting under a giant Va a tree in a village called el. While resting under the tree,
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