Book Title: Jain Legend Vol 4
Author(s): Hastimal Maharaj, Shuganchand Jain, P S Surana
Publisher: Hastimal Maharaj Shugan C Jain P S Surana

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________________ celebrate 'S mvatsarika' on Pamcam only. Lately, he started explaining the meaning of va yaka S tra to the devotees. In the explanation he first analyses the Namask ra Mantra. Meanwhile you have passed an ordinance asking those ascetics to leave Pa a, who wish to celebrate the Parva on Pamcam. Our Guru ordered me to ask you whether he has to leave Pa a a after completing his explanation on Namask ra Mantra or now itself, leaving the explanation and analysis of Namask ra Mantra mid-way.” King Kum rap la became furious at once, but discernment awakened the next moment. He found himself caught in a dilemma. On one hand, the question of obeying the order issued by him and on the other the interruption in the explanation of great Mantra, a religious exigency. He approached c rya Hemacandra for resolving the dilemma and asked for a solution. c rya Hemacandra S ri advised him saying that c rya Jaya Simha S ri of Reformed path was endowed with such sagacity that he could defeat even the pre-eminent debaters like Div kara with his eloquence and that he was a master in occult and mystic powers. Hence it is not advisable for any one to provoke his wrath. So Kum rap la at once went to c rya Jaya Simha S ri and explained the matter regarding the ordinance and pleaded forgiveness. Thus, some of the ascetics who were to celebrate S mvatsarika on Pamcam migrated to some other places. However, Jaya Simha S ri with his unmatched wit and prudence stayed back inexorable like a mountain (Acala). Thus, it also came to be known as Acalagaccha. gamikagaccha gamikagaccha originated as an effort to bring in reforms. At the end of 12th and the commencement of Vikram 13th century when the perverted code and blasphemous tenets found place in Candra gaccha, Monk lagu a S ri approximately during the second decade of Vikram 13th century, propelling a religious reform, founded the gamikagaccha, the other branch of Reformed path. As he instituted the gamikagaccha, he was considered as the first c rya of gamikagaccha. It was a branch of 180

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