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abolished Jajiy tax and M mdak tax levied on travellers in pilgrim centres. He even passed decrees of ‘Am ri' (free from violence). King Mahr Prat pa also sent a letter in the service of H ravijaya S ri on bright 5th lunar month of wina in Vikram 1635 imploring him to visit Udaypur.
H ravijaya S ri was a soft spoken, percipientc rya of great competency. Tap gaccha Pa val narrates that even Meghaj i, the
c rya of Lok gaccha, touched by his sermons, left his gaccha and joined Tap gaccha with 3 disciples in Vikram 1628. H ravijaya S ri gave him the name 'Udyotavijaya'. Enlightened by his sermons Jait ha, a courtier of Akbar and a resident of Nagore took initiation into monkhood from H ravijaya S ri. He was named as J tavijaya. But the people used to call him as ‘B da h Yati'.
Information is available that H ravijaya S ri's gaccha consisted of 2000 monks and 3000 female monks. This was indeed the golden age of Tap gaccha. Contents of a verse which narrates the 18 branches of Tap gaccha are given below:
Bijai-1 Vimala-2, Ruci-3, S ra-4, Har a-5 Sundara-6 Saubh g -7, K rata-8, Dharama-9, Ud ra-10, Ku ala Prabha-11 Hamsa-12 Sur g - 13Nanda-14 S gara-15 Canda-16 Soma-17 Varddhana-18 Adhik
Tap gaccha kha A h raha, E
a saba hi bh
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(Tap gaccha has eighteen branches, and all these saints are bretheren).
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