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scripture-based holy path remained floating unsupported like cotton burst open from its secure pod.
The cyclone of religious revolution badly hit the floating income of the luxury-addicted c ryas, monks, etc. and they in their bewilderment combined with helplessness started writing abusive, venomous literature against Lok ha and his parents too.
Keeping in view the different vitiated versions regarding the life history, personality and authorship of Lok ha, written by c ryas and scholars of different heretical traditions, we have presented the different opinions prevalent and available in the Jain literature till date, in Jain Dharma k Maulika Itih sa Vol. 4, pp. 702 to 751, exactly in the same form, to provide information to the lovers of history. The different opinions about his birth, birth place, time, date of his authorship, date of commencement of his sermons, launching the pure code of conduct, controversies regarding his initiation (whether he had taken initiation or not), views expressed about Lok ha by Ratna Nandi, the Digambar c rya etc. were presented in the 4th volume. This information is not provided in this text owing to space constraint.
Lok gaccha tradition - Original name Jinamat
In the entire Jain literature available so far, the tradition founded by Lok ha is called as Lok gaccha, L mpaka gaccha, L mp ka gaccha and Jinamat only. Except these, no other name is found in any literature. As far as the name Lok gaccha is concerned, a person like Lok ha, an ideal, renouncer and lover of Jina Order would never under any circumstances accept to name the great religious congregation of Mah v ra after himself as Lok gaccha. With regard to the names L mpaka gaccha, L mp ka gaccha the two words L mpaka or L mp ka means robber. No decent congregation calls itself as congregation of robbers. These terms were used in the Pa val s, poetry, quatrains, Bh sa / bards etc. written by the gacchas opposing this pure tradition. The use of abusive words for an unblemished tradition is found often in the contemporary literature too. Besides, in many Pa val s of Lok gaccha it is clearly mentioned that the pure ascetic path or the compassionate path which was an outcome of spiritual revolution of Lok ha was nicknamed contemptuously by the hostile gacchas as L mk gaccha or Lok gaccha.
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