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No details about his life are available from any source, but It is well-known that he had earned a name as the best preceptor of his age on account of bis patience dod bivad outlook. He was away even from the wiccha -blas, and it was for this veis reason, that Sri jinafrabliai Sūri uf Kharatara-gaccha dedicated to him the 700 hymns that he had composed for his disciples
He has composed Brhannavyakşetra-dasa of 10 less than 387 Cáthas The Saptatisatasthānaka and some other works also are ascribed to him He has written a gloss on the 28 rhyme hymns of his precepior More-over, he has also composed some fresh hymns of his own Thus, his literary activity also was not of an ordinary count. He left his mortal frame in V S 1424
He had four very lustrous disciples named, Sri PadmatilakaSiiri, Sri Chandrasekhara Siri, Šri jayananda Sūsi and Sri Derasundara Sūri, on whom was bestowed Acarya-ship in succession.
His disciple Śrî Candrasekhara Sori was born in V. S. 1373 and his initiation took place in V. S. 1383-i e. to say," when he was only twelve years of age. He was awarded the status of an Acarya in 1393 V. S and he expired at the age of 50 in V S. 1423. Among his works can be counted the Kathás keil Usitabhojanakathă and Yavarājar și Katha, as also the Stambhanakahārabandha and other hymns
Śri Jayānunda Súri, another pupil of Sri Soniatilaka Sûri was born in 1380 V. S. and he too, was initiated at the age of twelve years on the seventh day of the bright half of the month of Āsādha in the year 1392. He secured the dignity of a Sûrı on the tenth day of the bright-hall of the month or Caitra in the year 1420 V. S at Anahillapura Pățaņa, and died in 1441 V. S. He has composed śri Sthûlabhadracarita and some eulogies, one of which begins with “Devah prabhoyan"
Compositions, devotion to the Sangha, and the other religious deeds of Minister Pethada were really prompted by the instruction of Sri Jayānda Sūri,
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