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Śatrunjaya, he was reborn as a deity nained Māṇibhadra in the Vyantara Nikaya
As days passed on, secterianism gathered more and more strength. The monks of both the-Kharatara and the Tapăgacchas-were keen on overthrowing the other side by hook or crook in the infatuation of this pertinacity, even sense of propriety was lost sight of The Kharatara monks had nearly 500 monks of the rival gaccha extirpated through Bhairava who was propitiated by them.
Śri Anandavimala Sūri was highly aggrieved at the news of the formidable deed. He thought of his responsibility for the protection of Tapā-gaccha He extended his journey to Palanpur and stopped in groves of Magarvaļā. During his meditations at night, when the deity Manibhadra appeared before him, he related to him the sad tale and asked him to keep it off. Manibhadra undertook the task with the condition that his image be installed in the Tapăgaccha temples. As an evidence of this fact, even today, we find the deity's images installed at several places,
At this stage too, the Sūri's task was not over. He had also to refute objections against Jainism that ensued from wilfulness of some mendicants; and he proved more than a match for all.
Further, Śri Somaprabha Sûri, the 47th. Pattadhara, had forbidden wanderings in such provinces as Mārwāda, on account of scarcity of pure water there. Some mal-doctrinists took advantage of this, and endeavoured to strengthen their own respective positions. Of such an unbearable situation, the Acarya could not be a more passive spectator, He could seė that it was a red-signal for the Tapāgaccha tenet. Careless about the discrimination of right and wrong, the common man likes merely to follow others without any consideration. Thus thinking, he commenced his wanderings in Mārwada, caring the least about idle-talks and facing boldly, all the hindrances.
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