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Chapter IV
51. Śri Munisundara Sūri Birth V. S. 1436 : Initiation V. S. 1443 : Vācaka- pada V. S. 1466 : Ācāry-apada V. S. 1478 : Demise V. S. 1503 : Total life-time 67 years.
Śri Munisundara Sūri succeeded Śri Somasundar Sūri. He was born in V S 1436 and was initiated at the tender age of 7 years. No information regarding his place of birth and his parents is available, but it is beyond doubt that he possessed extra-ordinary talents and unique memory. He could, they say, attend to a thousand different matters all at a time, and therefore he was renowned as a "Sahasrāvadhāni." He could also distinctly identify 108 different sounds around him.
The southern poets, being touched by his profound Scriptural knowledge, had bestowed upon him the title of "KāliSarasvati". He was awarded also the title of "Vädi Gokulşandha" by Dafatara Khan, Governor of Khambhät, who thus seems to have considered him a master-mind among the learned.
The occasion of his accepting the Ācārya-ship ( in V. S. 1478) was highly honoured by Devarāja, a merchant of Vadanagar, who liberally spent 32000 coins in the great festival.
At the age of twelve, he composed the "Traivedya Gosthi", a treatke dealing concisely with Logic, Grammar, and Poetry; which excellent composition sets a strong evidence for his power
*Sarasvati, Goddess of Learning-is said to be white in colour The epithet "Kali-Sarasvati" seems to suggest that the colour of the preceptor's body must have been dark-blue.
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