Acharya Hasti Mala
| 29th Pontiff ĀcāryaŚaṃkara Sena | 30th Pontiff Ācārya Jaso Bhadra Swāmī | |
| Birth | V.N. 1019 | V.N.1044 |
| Initiation | V.N.1041 | V.N. 1071 |
| Ācārya position | V.N.1064 | V.N.1094 |
| Death | V.N.1094 | V.N.1116 |
| Lifespan as householder | 22 years | 27 years |
| Lifespan as a monk | 23 years | 23 years |
| Lifespan as Ācārya | 30 years | 22 years |
| Total monkhood | 53 years | 45 years |
| Total lifespan | 75 years | 72 years |
30th Epochal-ācāryaśrī Jina Bhadragaṇi Kṣamāśramaṇa
| Birth | V.N.1011 |
| Initiation as a monk | V.N. 1025 |
| Monk lifespan | V.N.1025-1075 |
| Period as epochal- ācārya | V.N. 1055-1115 |
| Death | V.N.1115 |
| Lifespan | 104 years 6 months 6 days |
He got initiated into Śramaṇa monkhood at a young age of 14 years in V.N.1025. During 30 years of his ordinary monk life, he very diligently and cautiously observed right monk conduct and studied deeply all the scriptures, religious texts, logic and grammar, poetry, law and the doctrine of self- no self. In V.N. 1055 due to the death of epochal-ācārya Hārila, he ascended to the position of an epochal-ācārya.
From his six verse long veneration in the beginning auspicious practice of 'Jīta kalpa cūrṇi' by Ācārya Siddha Sena Kṣamāśramaṇa, it emerges that Ācārya Jina Bhadra Kṣamāśramaṇa was a scholar par excellence, venerated and served by the group of monks, having the deep insight knowledge of scriptures and speaker, knower of many scriptures and of self- no self-doctrine.
Jina Bhadra Kṣamāśramaṇa composed Jītakalpa, Sabhāṣya Viśeṣavatī, Bṛhatkṣetrasamāsa, Bṛhatsaṃgrahaṇī and in V.N. 1076 Caitra śuklā 15 Wednesday during the reign of King Śīlāditya of Vallabhī composed Viśeṣāvaśyakabhāṣya. There is no subject associated with Jain doctrine which he had not enlightened in Viśeṣāvaśyakabhāṣya. He also composed cūrṇi of Anuyoga.
Actually the beginning of cūrṇi literature was done by him only. Cūrṇi of Anuyoga by Jina Bhadra Kṣamāśramaṇa is considered topmost amongst all cūrṇis even today.
Ācāryas of later period considered Jina Bhadra Kṣamāśramaṇa as the strong supporter of the scriptures. In his compositions, he always kept scriptures uppermost and established philosophy on the basis of scriptures and not vice versa.
Jina Bhadra Kṣamāśramaṇa by composing Anuyoga cūrṇi, Viśeṣāvaśyakabhāṣya and commentary on Viśeṣāvaśyakabhāṣya did yeoman service for the propagation of Jainism. During his 90 years of life as a monk, he composed a large number of literatures and contributed immensely to it. Even after attaining the age of 100, he continued to be busy in writing literary masterpieces. During the last years of his life, he started writing the self vṛatti on Viśeṣāvaśyakabhāṣya. He could complete up to Six-Gaṇadhara doctrine only before his death. This incomplete work of his was later completed by Koṭyācārya.
In this way serving the Jainism by immense contribution to its literary wealth, he died at the age of 104 years, 6 months and 6 days in V.N. 1115.
