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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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sūri. When this Sari delivered his usual religious sermons, 12 pontiffs used to sit at his each side. On his right, again, were placed nine cups in the flowerportico for accumulating the nectat of the nine sentiments flowing from the exĮxunder's nice speech ! On his left, however, was kept a dagger which would work upon his tongue in case of a corrupted utterance or a repetition !
One day there arrived at Sripattant (inou. Prabbas a Patana in Sauris fra! a dialectician from the Gauda country, Deva mahānanda by name, who had 84 poppets tied to his legs. He placed straw and water at the entrance of the ternple of Somanatlia and pronounced this challenge:
li there is any dialectician, let bim enter into a dialectical contest with me; or else let bin stand before me in the manner of a beast!"
Three days having lapsed, goddess Sarasvati commanded Varddliamnānasari at vight to go to Sriyattana to vanquish the disputant and asked him to sip the nectar-water from a water-pot.
Thereupori the pontiff caused two of his disciples, Våghalau and Singhalau by nanie, to sip it, as a consequence whereof arose in them a huge wave of knowledge. Then he sent along with the people who approached him at the command of the goddess.
The precepto: protected thein (through his spiritual powers) against the floods of the river Deyi, paralysing the flow whereof he enabled them to cross the river safely. All concerned were wonder-struck at this.
Having reaclied Deva pattana the Iwo disciples commenced the contest which continued fcr as many as 18 days. At last the dialectician was defeated and died of heart-bursting. The wealth left by the dying disputant was utilized in erecling twenty-four Jaina monasteries furnished with residential accoinmodation for monks.
This Varddha ina na sūri composed the Vasupujyacaritra,
THE CONCLUDING STANZA
+ The glory of kings lies in the tusks of elephants, of paupers in the shoulders of bulls, of warriors in the tip of (their) swords (and) of ladies ia (their) breasts."
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