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जैनागमग्रन्थमाला ग्रन्थांका-२ में प्रकाशित यह ग्रन्थ अनेक हस्तप्रती का आश्रय लेकर अत्यंत परिश्रम पूर्वक संगदित किया गया है । महत्त्वपूर्ण टिप्पणियों से अलंकृत यह ग्रन्थ विद्वानों में आदरसात्र बनेगा । अंग में शब्द सूवो दी गई है-इससे ग्रन्थ की उपयोगिता और भी बढ
दलसुख मालवणिया Shrimaj Jayācārya A spiritual Apostle, Sampalmal Bhandari, Published by the author, Jodhpur, 1976, Rs. 15
Out of 230 pages actual life of Shri Jayācārya, the fourth 'pontiff of Terapantha begins at page no. 81. In the introductory
pages the tenets of Jainism such as Ahimsā, Karma and yyadvāda are discussed. As regards Ahimsa and dayā the view point of the Terāpantha Jaina sect is discussed in detail.
Jayācārya's original name was Jeetmalji and he became a monk at the age of nine in V.S. 1869 and so the author talks of this event as mystery because it is beyond our understanding that how a boy of that age can have the understanding of the mundane world and the soul power (ch. III) etc. The author has tried to solve this problem by giving some example of the persons such as Dhruva, Hemacandra and others; but we are not sure of their understanding of the problems of this world and thereby renouncing this world. There may be influnces other than the understanding of their own. After proper study and training of the life as a monk in V. S. 1908 he became the fourth pontiff of the Terāpantha (p. 119 ) (This date is given as V. S. 1906 on page no 132 ). He is responsible for establishment of the control of the Ācārya on all the monks to be initiated in the sect, and on all the property such as books or mss. etc. to re nain with the sangha, no individual monk can have his own books or mss. etc. He is also responsible for creating new literature for use of the monks by copying old inss. and also by pro. ducing the new treatises. He was the first to learn Sanskrit and introduced the study of Sanskrit in Terapantha. And thus new image of the sangha was created by him,
