Book Title: 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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vows for some time and eat sufficient quantities of rich food. After the complete cure of this disease, you undertake repentance and get reinitiated into monkhood to observe the conduct of monks.'
Unwillingly accepting the orders of his supremely knowledgeable guru, he gave up monkhood and became a householder. Wearing the ashes on his body, he started roaming here and there and finally reached the palace of the king of K mc. Seeing his ash clad body, immediately the idea struck the king of K mc whether Lord iva himself, after showering his greatest blessings, has appeared before him. Therefore he rose from his seat, bowed to the ash clad Samanta and paid him respects. When the king realized that Samanta is a great monk and spends all his life in the praise and worship of Lord, he requested Samanta to live in
iva temple of the palace and perform all religious duties as the head priest. Consuming daily the large quantities of rich food offered by devotees to Lord iva in the temple, soon the deadly disease of Samanta got fully cured.
One day, on the insistence of the King of K mc to perform the p j of iva, Samanta Bhadra composed 'Svayambh stotra' and started worshipping Lord Jinendra in front of the iva limga. In the citation in 'Candrappaha carium', when the time came to bow and pay obeisance to the iva by Samanta Bhadra, immediately the idol of eighth T rthamkara Candra Prabhu of Bharata region of Jamb dw pa of this avasarpi araka appeared from the iva limga. This miraculous event created a huge impact and influence of Jainism in the minds of king of K mc and his subjects. As a result the ruling dynasty continued to be followers of Jainism for a long time. After rutakevl Bhadra B hu, Samanta Bhadra is the only crya who is venerated equally by both Digambaras and vet mbaras alike and they both felt honoured to call him as their c rya.
Famous religious texts written by crya Samanta Bhadra, popular even today
1.
pta M m ms or Dev gama.
2. Svayambh stotra or Caturvim ati Jina stuti
3. Stuti Vidy
4. Yuktyanu sana
5. Ratna Kara da r vak c ra.
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