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PRAŠASTI Muni Jambū had a disciple Prabhava; and he had one, Sri Sayyambhava; and he had one, Yaśobhadra. His two chief disciples were Sambhūta and Muni Bhadrabāhu; and Sri Sthūlabhadra was the bee to, Sambhūta's lotus-feet.
His chief disciple, who had outstanding magic powers, was Mahāgiri, a great mountain of firmness, knowing ten pūrvas of the treasury of fourteen pūrvas that had come down in succession in the line of teachers. Another disciple, knowing the ten pūrvas, best of munis, Suhastin by name, had a great wealth of knowledge produced by service to his (Mahāgiri’s) lotus-feet. King Samprati made the surface of the earth everywhere in every city, village, and mine in this half of Bharata adorned with shrines of the Jinas. The great muni, Ārya Suhastin, had a disciple, named Susthitasupratibuddha,269 who knew ten pūrvas in a wealth of tranquillity, an elephant for breaking the big tree of existence. Then there was the great order, Koţika, whose wandering extended to the Lavaņoda Ocean from the vicinity of places served by sādhus, like the stream of the Gangā from Mt. Himavat. In this order, after a number of chief sādhus had gone by, there was the last one who knew ten pūrvas, the great muni, Vajra Sūri, a diamond from the diamond-mine of the large city, Tumbavana.
One time when a famine had arisen, like the end of the world, he, sharing the fear, with pure magic arts set the whole terrified community of sādhus on a carpet, lifting (them) up by his lotus-hand, and took them through the air quickly to the city Mahāpurī, which was a place of abundant alms, he—the depository of unlimited power from penance.
269 4. KSK, p. 165, discusses the possibility of this being something else than one name, but Hemacandra obviously uses it as the name of one man.
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