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twenty-one men at one and the same time. He had in all eighty pupils and thirteen Panyasas.
4. PADMASAGARA:- He was a great debator. He had defeated Narsinh Bhatta in a debate at the court of the king of Sirohi. He was also a scholar and had composed several works, chief amongst which are:-"ITETTU TOFerr," "Tarafta," "yfergeltActat," "Tagal-Actat," "TAU90127-Actas," "TOTEUTE HOT", "itegara," "THTHEIT" and "FACÁHem."
5. KALYANVIJAY VACHAK : He was born on the fifth day of the black half of Aso, V. S. 1601. He was initiated at Mehsana at the hands of Hirvijaysuri in V. S. 1616. In V. S. 1624 he was made a Pandit. He was a scholar, a debator and a logician. He was of a very pure character. Once he had delivered a very fine speech at the court of Raja Vachha Trivadia of Rajpipla, where six thousand Brahmins had gathered together. The king was highly pleased by his logical argument.
He had passed the monsoon of V. S. 1656 at Surat. At that time there was a quarrel going on between the followers of Hirvijaysuri and Dharmasagar. Kalyanvijay explained the whole matter to Vijaysensuri and got the offenders properly punished.
Moreover there were other Sadhus like Siddhichandraji, Nandivijay, Somavijay, Dharmasagar, Pritivijay, Tejavijay, Anandavijay, Vinitavijay, Dharmavijay and Hemavijay. They too were clever in their work and true to their Order. Poet Rishabhadas says, in his "Hirvijaysuriras" (p. 274),
“હીરના ગુણને નહિ પારે, સાધ સાધવી અઢી હજાર; વિમલહષ સરીષા વિઝાય, સોમવિજય સરિષા ઋષિરાય. ૧ શાંતિચંદ પરમુષ વળી સાતે, વાચસ્પદ એહ વિખ્યાત સિંહવિમલ સરિષ પંન્યાસ, દેવવિમલ પંડિત તે પાસે. ૨ ધર્મશત્રષિ સબળ લાજે, હેમવિજય મોટા કવિરાજ
જસસાગર વલી પરમુષ પાસ, એક સો ને સાઠહ પંન્યાસ. ૩” Not only Sadhus, but Jains of Mevat, Marwar, Mewar, Kathiawad, Gujarat and the Punjab also believed in Hirvijaysuri. They had full faith in the Suri.
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