Nayakarnika

Author(s): Vinayvijay, Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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of the text, and, being a brilliant logician himself, respectfully threw a suggestion as to the true mode of its interpretation. The guru was delighted with his pupil's intelligent explanation, and acceded to bis request for a loan of the manuscript for a day. The book contained twelve huvdred verses, but both Vinayalál and Jasulâl managed, between themselves, in the short interval of 24 hours, to commit to memory the whole of it ---Jasulâl 700 verses and Vinayalál the remaining 500.
It took Vinayavijaya and Yasovijaya twelve years to complete their course of study, at the end of which they both adopted their original Jaina ascetic's dress. Yasovijaya succeeded in winuing a victory over a great disputant, who surrendered his two diplomas of Mahamahopadhyâya and Nyaya Visårada. Subsequently, Yasovijaya also acquired the covetous title of Nyâyachůrya* on his composing one hundred works. Yasovijaya and Vinayavijaya finally took leave of their gulr'u and departed from Benares. They separated from one another, and travelled to different places. Vinayavijaya came to Junagadh, in Kathiawad, on pilgrimage to the holy Jaina Tîrtha, Girnar Hills, in S. Y. 1708, in which
* This is borne out by the following verse at the end of the Jaina Tarka Paribbaşå :
पूर्व न्ययविशारदत्वविरुदं काश्यां प्रदत्तं बुधैयायाचार्यपदं ततः कृतशतग्रंथस्य यस्यार्पितम् ।