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Jhanjhana, like his father, was an excellent follower of Jina, influential member of the Jain community and great donor.
We shall now deal with the activities of the Jain monks in the Vaghela Period. Jagatchandrasūri, founder of the Tapa gatchha, had two prominent pupils-Vijayachandra and Devendrasūri. Before Vijayachandra entered the order of Jain monks, he worked as a clerk of the famous Jain minister Vastupala who had helped him to become an Acharya or Doctor. There was some difference of opinion between Vijayachandra and Devendra. The former lived continuously for several years at Cambay and his followers came to be known as 'Vriddhaśālika because they, with their preceptor, lived in a big monastery. Devendra and his pupils who wandered from one place to the other, had to put up at a small monastery when they came to Cambay; so Devendra's followers came to be known as Laghuśālika"?
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Vijayachandra allowed his pupils to keep some more clothes besides their daily requirements; they were, moreover, allowed to take milk, ghee, fruits and vegetables everyday, and to perform
(1) Desai, Jain Sahityano Itihas, pp. 395, 400-1.
