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He was a great sagacious debater of his times. He won many spiritual discourses and enhanced the fame of Reformed Path.
According to 'Merutumg y Laghu ata Pad' and Merutumg ya Pa val , Simhaprabha Sri in spite of being versatile ascetic - a perspicacious debater, stalwart propagator, courageous and outspoken – was slowly attracted towards lax conduct and eventually became a permanent inhabitant like Temple dwellers and more or less followed their life style. Following his footsteps, Ajita Simha S ri, the 6th c rya and his successor left behind the so called c ryas of Temple dwellers in his laxity of conduct.
Most of the gacchas who purported themselves as Suvihita tradition also gradually became co-travellers of Temple dwellers with scant attention or no attention towards code of conduct, adherence to their tenets, and with heretical regulations, i.e going against scriptural doctrine.
Had the reformers not taken pains to bring the fundamental holy path into light, from time to time, probably today the scripture-based path of spiritual purification would have been blanketed by the debauched principles like a sun being shadowed by the dark monsoon clouds.
Amcalagacch y Pa val
In the Pa val s of all gacchas, except for Upake a gaccha, like the Kharatara gaccha, Tap gaccha, Amcala gaccha etc, the number and names of Pontiffs, from Sudharm Sw m, the first pontiff of Lord Mah v ra to 34" Pa adhara, are almost same, with very infinitesimal rather insignificant difference here and there.
The succeeding Pa val of Amcalagaccha starting from the 35th pontiff onwards is as follows:
35th. Udyotana S ri - He was the founder of the Badagaccha. 36th. Sarvadeva Sri 37th. Padmadeva Sri 38th. Udayaprabha Sri 39th. Prabh nanda Sri 40th. Dharmacandra Sri 41st. Vijayacandra S ri
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