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frat). He was perfectly dispassionate and he always busy in acquiring knowledge about the Supreme Soul He was naturally calm and perfectly free from desires He was always desirous of accepting Truth with an impartial eye He had read many sacred Works of Swetambcr und Digambar authors He was doing the daily religious rites strictly in accordance with the code of Rules of Tapa Gaccha Remaining entirely free from petty broils and party-spirit of various Gacchas, Srimad Anandaghanji was always endeavouring after purity of the Soul During his ascetic lite Srimad had contact with sådhus of many Gacchas. He had studied the Jaira Āgamas and he was clever in the Science of Reasoning and in Rhetoric. e avoided captious argumentation, frutless discussion, irrelevant talks, and unnecessary association with house-holders.
Srimad Anandaghanaji was living in the eighteenth century. The following are the names of his contemporaries viz 1. Ācārya Maharāja Sri Vijaya Déva Sūriji 2. Ācāryā Mahārāja Sri Vijaya Prabha Sūri 3 Ācārya Śri Vijaya Ratna Sūri, Upadhyaya Vinaya Vijayaji, Sakalacandaji Upadhyāya, Upadhyâya Sri Yasovijayaji, Pannyâsa Sri Satya Vijayajı, Upādhyāya Sri Mâna Vijayaji, Sri Jnāna Vimala Sűri, and Sri Lāvaṇya-vijaya Gani, Kavi Prémānanda was also his contemporary.
Śrimad Anandaghanaji was not willing to follow the advice of of Śrâvaka house-holders and thus make his ascetic life blame. worthy. Immediately after doing his routine daily Pratikramana and others religious rites, he would invariably make himself busy with reading, thinking, repetition, solution of doubts etc. It was his personal experience that a Sadhu should always re. main in the samudaya (congregation) and make himself familiar with the conventional usage of various kinds from the Great Teachers. He believed that Ācāryas and Upadhyāyas are the leaders and protectors of the Jaina Religion, and all the Sådhus should pass their ascetic life under their supervision. However
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