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Their loyalty and fondness towards the pure scriptural Jain doctrine and tenets increased in multitude and they became the ardent followers of Lok ha.
The Life History of Lok
ha described in Potiy bandha Pa
val
In Kharam iy , a city in the desert region (Rajasthan), Mehat K mad ra, working as B s Oswala of J g rad ra Durjana Simha of Jodh dynasty had two sons. The elder son was Mehat J va R ja and the younger Mehat Lakhamas . The two brothers owned immense wealth and riches, and were followers of Kharatara gaccha, and well conversant in Jain doctrines like J v j va etc. Due to some reason Durjana Simha, son of Ratana Simha and grand son of R va Jodh became angry with both the brothers and confiscated their property. The brothers wandering through many places to establish business reached P a a. There in the lodgings, both of them saw Khemacandra, the disciple of crya nanda Vimala S ri of P namiygaccha, writing Da avaik lika S tra. The younger brother Lakhamas took some papers and Stras from Monk Khemas and wrote some verses like 'Dhammo Mamgala Mukki ham etc. Monk Khemas was so delighted with the beautiful handwriting of the stranger. At once he went to his guru and showed the paper written by Lakhamas . Impressed and surprised at the beauty of the letters, the preceptor asked, “Who has written this?”.
Monk Khemacandra brought both the brothers to his Guru and signalling at Lakhmas said, “Lord! This is Lakhamas , who wrote those verses."
With the auspicious commencement of Vikram 1531 the amoral consequences of Bhasmagraha (asterism of ashes) had disappeared.
c rya r assigned the work of copying the S tras to J var ja and Mehat Lakhamas . While copying the S tras, Lakhamas came to know that the real form of asceticism described in the scriptures was extremely pure and non- transgression. He realised that the current (of his times)
rama as completely deviated from the pure path and were performing many pompous external rituals which involve violence in the name of Dharma. With an object to collect the treasure of scriptures, Mehat
amas met the businessman 'R pas' and requested for financial assistance for copying the scriptures. He copied and got 32 scriptures copied by other scribes. Thereupon R pas and Lakhamas studied the
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