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After Dikşā, Prabhava Muni studied the Twelve Angas and the fourteen Pūrvas and practised severe austerities,
Prabhava Muni was thirty years old at the time of initiation, He remained an ordinary ascetic for forty-four years. Then, he was the Chief of the Jaina Sangha for eleven years. He died at an age of eighty-five, i-e seventy-five years after the Nirvāņa of śramana Bhagavāna Mahāvīra. Prabhava Swāmi belonged to 172104 Ta Kātyāyana gotra.
One night, when the whole congregation of ascetic disciples was sleeping, an idea of undermentioned nature occurred at midnight in the mind of Prabhava Swāmī who was then in anfazı Yoga Nidrā, Somnolent condition induced by the practice of Yoga ---
"Who will be my successor as the head of the Congregation, capable of rescuing the Jaina Sangha, like a clever mariner and of expanding, like the Sun, the lotus-like Dharma preached by the Arhals ?
When deeply engrossed in this thought, with the object of finding out a suitable successor, Prabhava Swāmin thought over the sadhus of his own congregation and the entire Jaina Sangha, and looking out with the aid of his highly illuminating superior knowledge, he could not find out a single individual radiant with the zeal of spreading the Dharma preached by the Tīrthankaras. He, therefore, turned his attention towards people of other doctrines, as a lotus deserves to be picked up even from mire, and he found out a well-known Brāhmin Pandit (scholar ) named papira E Sayyambhava-bhatta of acenta Vatsa gotra, as a most suitable individual whose Liberation was also in near future.
Pandit Sayyambhaya was at that time busy performing various at, Yajnas, Sacrifices at Rāja-griha.
Prabhava Swāmī, thereupon, went to Rāja-griha, and sent
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