________________ XXV his elder brother Jinesvara incidentally in the Prasasti verses of the Buddhisagara's work, in the 19th canto entitled 'Abhayadevasuri-caritam' of the Prabhavakacarita of Prabhacandracarya (V. Sam. 1334, i. e. 1277 A. D.), the Pattavali of the Kharataragacha of the Svetambara Jains, the Surasundaritariyam of Dhanesvara and the Pramalaksana of Jinesvarasuri. 5.2. This information about Buddhisagara and Jinesvara is provided in the Abhayadevasuricarita of the Prabhavakacarita (PrbC) since Abhayadevasuri, the famous author of the commentaries on nine Anga works of the Svetambara Jaina Canon, was a disciple of Jinesvarasuri, and Buddhisagarasuri was the latter's younger brother and a co-disciple. 5.3. Prabhacandrasuri has given the following details about the life of both these Jaina Suris : During the reign of King Bhoja of Dhara in the Malava country, there lived in the city of Dhara a wealthy merchant named Laksmipati. Once upon a time in those days, two young and highly learned scholars named Sridhara and Sripati, the sons of the Brahmin named Krsna who hailed from Madhyadesa, arrived in Dhara on a sight-seeing visit to a different region and came to the residence of Laksmipati for alms. On the wall facing this house they saw the accounts of the merchant written in detail. Due to their repeated visits to this house for alms, these details of the writing on the wall almost got imprinted in their memory which was extraordinarily sharp. Now, once when the houses in the street caught fire, and along with the household of Laksmipati the wall of the accounts too was reduced to ashes, the merchant was depressed due to loss of his property and particularly due to the defacement of the accounts, since he was worried about the disputes that might arise about the claims of money due to the absence of the records. At this time on the next day when these two young scholars arrived for alms and found the merchant highly dejected, they obliged him by dictating those accounts in the daywise minutest details. The merchant was awe-struck at this miraculous feat on their part and honoured them with profuse presents. He further took them to his religious preceptor named Vardhamanasuri when the latter arrived in Dhara. The preceptor recognized the spark in these young-scholars, and with a view to groom them as potential luminaries in his preceptorial hierarchy, initiated them as his disciples in the Jaina monachal order under the new names of Jinesvara and Buddhisagara, educated them in the Jainistic philosophical and spiritual lore and finally conferred on them the highest monachic status of a Suri. They were, then, asked by Vardhamanasuri to go to Patan in Gujarat to pave the
