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eminent qualities of forbearance and tranquility, of Nayavimalaji, the delighted Acārya Maharaja Sri Vijaya Prabha Sūrisvaraji adorned him with Pannyasa Pada at Ghanèrava Nagara on the tenth day of the bright-half of the month of Māhā in V. S. 1727.
It so happened that when one day Ācārya Maharaja Śrī Vijaya Prabha Sūriji was sitting in the temple of Tirthankara Bhagavana Šri Rişabha Déva Swāmi, along with his coterie of Sadhus, for Caitya Vandana (obeisance to the image of the Tirthankara), Pandit Nayavimalaji along with his disciples, also came into the temple and began Caitya-Vandana with a number of verses composed extempore by himself. The pilgrims and the Sadhus were very favourably impressed Ācārya Mahārāja Śri Vijaya Prabha Sūriji praising the superior scholarship of Pannyasa Nayavimalaji said:-01 Even today, the Jaina Dharma is victorious simply because of the existence of such irudite poets in it. Addressing Nayavimala Gaçi, Ācārya Maharaja said:- great poet! It is impolite to call you Nayavimala.
You being a treasure-house of Right Knowledge, you really deserve to be an Ācārya, and it can be no exaggeration in style ing you as Jnāga Vimala Säri. Paņdit Nayavimalaji very polotely said:-0 Bhagavan 1 If there is any superior quality in me, it is all due to the grace of your venerable self-Ācārya Mahārāja then requested Pandit Nayavimalaji to come nearer to him and recite a Caitya-vandana. Pandit Nayavimalaji again politely repli. ed that a Sthavira Ācārya like himself was really fit to recite a Caltya-vandana in an assembly.
Besides, on seeing some visible signs of uneasiness among some of his own sådhus the Acarya Mahārāja admonishingly told them :- Worthy Persons ! No doubt I am respected because I am a sthavīra Ācārya, but looking to scholarship and other admirable virtues of Pandit Nayavimalaji, I am extremely glad to notice that he possesses the excellent qualities which I do not possess,
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