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Over and above this, he possessed wonderful originality too; and this can be illustrated by the fact that he has assigned some five hundred or seven hundred different senses to the very first verse of the Yogaśastra.
His indifferent nature also invites our praise. Having unque devotion to his preceptor, the moment he learnt about the illness of Śrî Hiravijaya Sūri he set out for ūna and struggled hard to cover up the distance in order to be able to meet him for the last time. As luck would have it, however, he could not be by his revered Guru's side at the time of the latter's demise.
Caring the least for personal glory, he had dedicated his life wholly to the enhancement of the faith.
He had installed nearly four hundred thousand images at a variety of places such as Kāvi, Campâner, Ahmedabad, Khambhat und Pāšaņa. Furthermore, he had got repaired the ruined temples at such holy plaees as Tarangā, Sankheśvara, Siddhacala, Pancāsara, Ranakpur, Ārāsaņa and the like.
have composed Sumitra
Sri Vijayısena Sūri is known to Rasa and Sūktávali.
At the age of sixty-seven years, he expired at Akabarpur near Khambhāt on the eleventh day of the dark half of the month of Jyest in V S. 1671. Or the spot where the funeral rites were performed, a moun mental column was erected by Somaji Shāh of Khambhāt, for which purpose Emperor Jehangir had generously offered ten vighãs of land *
Sūri's life vide
* For a detailed account of Sri Vijayasena the Vijayapraśrsti kävya.
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