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Then, in the company of Sri Dharmaghiosa Süri, Péthaga went on a grand pilgrimage to Satrunjaya, where he guilded the main temple with twenty-five Dhafist of gold in his caravan had joined seven lakh pilgrims, fifty-two Jaina temples and a large number of servants. During this pilgrimage, were spent eleven lakh rupees. Thence they went to Raivatācala. There Parna, an affluent Śrèsthin of the Digambara school, who was a favourite of King Alauddin, had also arrived on a pilgrimage. At the outset there raged a dispute between Péthada and Purga as to whose the holy place in reality was, and both declared their intention of becoming ihe caravan-leader. At last it was decided that he would win who gave inore quantity of gold, and at the cost of fifty-six Dhatis of gold, I éthada secured the Indramālā and thus was the Sve:āmbara Sanghe declared victorious.
Now, once, when he had gone to pay homage to the preceptor, the word "Gautama" as the name of a particular scripture was very often heard by him. At his query the preceptor, declaring it to he the “Bhagavati Sutra," explained to him the greatness of the sacred hook Péiheda displayed his desire to listen to it, and he did so laying down one gold-piece at every utterance of the term "Gautama.' During the process of listening to the Sutra thoroughly, he had to yield thirty-six thousand gold-coins. From this amount, he opened seven knowledge-cent-- res or libraries in Bhrgukaccha, Dévagis, Māņadvagadhe, Abu and the like seven cities
Péthad's son Zârzaņa too was brilliant and cunning He retained well his father's dignified ministershup and was able to win the King's special favour He too went on a pilgrimage to Śatrunjaya along with his preceptor, Sri Dharmaghosa Sūri. He had in his caravan, twenty-one religious preachers with their
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* That is, Girnar. In the original there is the mention of Satrunjaya itself.
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