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SUBSEQUENT MANTRIKAS MUNI MAHARAJA SRI MOHANLALJI
He took a leading part in the Anjana-salākā and installation ceremonies got performed by Seth Motisa in his group of temples on Satruñjaya Hills in 1893 and also in similar ceremonies at Seth Hathising's Temple at Ahmedabad in 1903. In 1899 he was in a Sangha going on a pilgrimage to Pancatirtha. Before it left the borders of Gujarat cholera broke out and people dispersed in small groups. The group which stuck to Sri Viravijaya was brought back by him safely to Ahmedabad, by his Mantric powers. At every stage on the way back Sri Viravijaya used to sprinkle charmed water around the camp.
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In his Rāsās Sri Viravijaya has made special obeisance to Sarasvati and Padmavati. The writer is reliably informed that Sri Viravijaya was a devoted worshipper of Padmavati and performed Mantric Sadhana of Rakta (Red) Padmavati (See Appendix 3).
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The beauty and charm of his poetry are themselves sufficient proof of his being a gifted writer. He is a poet of the first order in Gujarati and many of his lyric pieces entitle him to be called the Dayāram of the Jains. He died on Bhadarva Vad 3rd 1908. Vikrama era Sri Viravijaya was so modest that although Sri Vijayadevendrasuri Acarya of Tapagaccha offered to confer upon him the title of Upadhyāya he did not agree to receive the same. It is said that Sri Rūpavijaya was his rival in composition of Pūjās and Stavanas. His footprints were installed in the said Upäśraya at Bhaṭṭhini Pole on Maha Sud 6th 1909.
Amongst his contemporaries was the poet Sri Padmavijaya, the preceptor of the said Rūpavijaya who flourished from 1792 to 1862. Vikrama era
MUNI MAHĀRĀJA SRI MOHANLALJI
Sri Mohanlalji was born at Candpur in Marwad of Brāhmaṇa parents Badarmalji and Sunder on Caitra Vad 6th 1885 Vikrama era. *The Rakta Padmavati Mantra is given here from the writer's collection:ल्क ब्लूँ सः त्रिभुवनक्षोभिणी त्रिभुवनमोहिनी हाँ श्री रक्तपद्मावती नमः ॥
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