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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29th and 30th pontiffs of rama a Lord Mah v ra
29th Pontiff 30th Pontiff
c rya amkara c rya Jaso Sena
Bhadra Sw m Birth
V.N. 1019
V.N.1044 Initiation
V.N.1041
V.N. 1071 c rya position
V.N.1064
V.N.1094 Death
V.N.1094
V.N.1116 Lifespan as householder 22 years
27 years Lifespan as a monk 23 years
23 years Lifespan as c rya 30 years
22 years Total monkhood
53 years
45 years Total lifespan
75 years
72 years
30th Epochal- c rya r Jina Bhadraga i K am
rama a
Birth Initiation as a monk Monk lifespan Period as epochal- c rya Death Lifespan
V.N.1011 V.N. 1025 V.N.1025-1075 V.N. 1055-1115 V.N.1115 104 years 6 months 6 days
He got initiated into rama a monkhood at a young age of 14 years in V.N.1025. During 30 years of his ordinary monk life, he very diligently and cautiously observed right monk conduct and studied deeply all the scriptures, religious texts, logic and grammar, poetry, law and the doctrine of self- no self. In V.N. 1055 due to the death of epochal- c rya H rila, he ascended to the position of an epochal- c rya.
From his six verse long veneration in the beginning auspicious practice of 'J ta kalpa c r i' by crya Siddha Sena K am rama a, it emerges that crya Jina Bhadra K am rama a was a scholar par excellence, venerated and served by the group of monks, having the deep insight knowledge of scriptures and speaker, knower of many scriptures and of self- no self doctrine.
Jina Bhadra K am rama a composed J takalpa, Sabh ya Vi e avat B hatk etrasam sa, B hatsamgraha and in V.N. 1076 Caitra ukl 15
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