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into his order of monks
initiated the highly intelligent child with due ceremony.
Then, inquiring about the age-limit of Maņaka Muni, the Acārya Mahārāja knew that he had only six months left as his age-limit. He then thought "How can this short-lived child acquire a knowledge of the Scriptures within such a short period of time? Highly talented benevolent sages of former times have declared that saints with a knowledge of the fourteen Pārvas or ten Pūrvas at least, can independently compose Sūtras embodying the essence of the Siddhāntas. An opportunity of instructing Maņaka Muni in a short time has , arisen, let me therefore compose a collection of the essence of the Siddhānta." With this idea in his mind Acārya Sayyambhavasūri composed a Sūtra named af y Daśavaikālika Sūtra containing an essence of the Siddhāntas. The work was called à fa. Vaikālika, as it was composed during evenings and it was called for. Dasa-vaikālika as it contained ten chapters. The most excellent and highly compassionate Acārya Srimān Sayyambhava-sūri himself commenced the teaching of the Daśavaikālika Sūtra to Manaka Muni. Within six months, the whole sūtra was taugh to him. At the end of that period, when Manaka Muni was on his death-bed, the Acārya himself did all the ceremony of giving him vows of repentence and misgivings, and of admonishing him to keep his mind on the three gem-like objects of worship of the Jain Siddhanta viz yada Suddha Deva, Pure god, gav Suddha Guru, Pure Teacher, and Jauh Suddha Dharma, Pure Religion.
At the death-time of Maņaka Muni, when drops of tears flowed uninterruptedly from the eyes of Acārya Mahārāja Sayyambhavasüri like a shower of autumnal rains, the distressed and astonished Yaśobhadra Muri and other disciples respectfully inquired “ worshipful master! Why should there be such an improper behaviour on your part? What inexplainable reason is there, that you are so mucb grieved at?"
