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10 thousand rupees, a palanquin to the congregation and gold coins and implements of knowledge like Mah vastra etc. [clothes used by ascetics] to V caka, P haka and ascetics.
r Guru also gave Mah vastra etc to all the c ryas of the 84 gacchas and two coins each to thousand ascetics.
With this description given in Pa val Number 2329, the fact is proved beyond doubt that in the last phase of Vikram 19th Century, practice of perverted rituals reached to such an extent even by the c ryas of renowned Kharatara gaccha that virtually there was no significant difference between Temple dwellers tradition and the so called Suvihita tradition with regard to code of conduct of monks, rituals, and the like. If we compare the code of conduct of c ryas like Jinamahe vara Sri with that of scripture-based code of conduct of rama as, it appears that the Jina commandment propounded in the scripture, had no place in their lives. Rather there was no connection at all between the austerities and rituals practised by Jain monks and those propounded in scriptures.
Tradition of Varddham na S ri: Unified opposition against
Kharatara gaccha
As long as cryas of Varddham na S ri tradition tried to re-establish scripture based path of spiritual purification and code of conduct of
rama as in its fundamental form, the Temple dwellers and their followers opposed them vehemently at every step.
After the establishment of Vasatiy sa tradition in A ahillapura Pa a a,
c ryas of Varddham na S ri tradition and of Temple dweller tradition were at logger heads. Varddham na Sri launched a new religious revolution with an object to completely eradicate the beliefs contrary to that of scriptures, the unconventional austerities and rituals and performance of religious rituals with pomposity and their congregations etc. So it was but natural for Temple dwellers to breed hostility towards Varddham na S ri's tradition. But in the name of glorification of Jina Order, the other gacchas of Suvihita tradition that assimilated those popular, attractive and entertaining beliefs of Temple dwellers tradition into their sect, also turned hostile against revolutionary tradition of Varddham na Sri. Illustrations of hostility of this type, (rivalry between
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