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Anc'alika sect started, in 1236 the Sārdha-pūnami sect started and in 1250, Āgamika sect started. In the Vir year 1696 ( V. S. 1222) Bahād rejuvinated temples as 'Shatrunjaya.'
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Śri Yashobhadra and Némicandra Sari.
Sarvadéva Suri had made eight of his pupils Ācāryas but taking Yashobhadra, as well as, Nem candra as most capable, he had installed these spiritual brothers on his seat. Information regarding their lives is not available, nor is there any work written by them. Its been written some where that Nemicandra Sūri had helped in finding out commentary on Pindaniryukti, a book containing 7671 verses and written by Viragani Némchandra-Sūri installed his spiritual brother Municandra Śūri the pupil of Vinayacandra Upadhyāya on his seat, as he thought him to be worthy of bearing the burden of his gaccha,
Abhayadéva Sari-the Navgari Critic. There was a celebrated merchant in Dhara Nagari. His wife Dhanadevi had given birth to a boy named Abhaya Kūmära Once upon a time, Jineswar Suri while on journey came there The merchant went with his son to pay respect to the Quru. The teacher explained to them the four types of duty that shows the worthlessness of this worldly life, with the result that disgust to this ilfe, was produced in the heart of Abhaya Kūmara. With the permission of his father, he accepted a saintly life, and when he was granted the rank of Āc'arya in V. S. 1088, he was only of an age of 16 years.
By means of the study of Logic and its practice he began to shive like the sun.
After receiving the Ācārya-ship he started on a journey, and happened to come to the city of Pratyapadra, There was famine then, and it had made the condition of the country very sorrowful On account of the famine the work of studying and teaching suffered and the religious lore was being forgotten. The
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