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verse evidently as a benedictory verse. It need not be stated that FATTO is a peculiar feature of Indian works. Every work must have a benedictory verse, otherwise, the work, as the popular superstition is, would hardly see its completion without any obstacles. This Akarate, then, is the convention (447) of the respectable men in the society (NTE). The deity that is the object of this obeisance or salutation differs according to the subject matter of every work or according to the peculiar religious tenet of an author. In the following verse “8795fTaFA199714" etc. Hemchandra has observed this convention and offered his salutations to the language of जिन (जैनी वाक् ). The word जिन means 'a conqueror' and was applied as an honorific term to महावीर, the founder of Jain religion. जनी वाक् or the language of जिन is अर्धमागधी-a subdivision of the प्राकृत language. Taport is the language or rather a 91ka dialect in which agift preached his jain doctrines to his audience. It is quite in the fitness of things that, Hemachandra, who was a renownded Jain preacher, should show his deep reverence for startet, the language of the sacred books of the jains. Thereft, according to Hem., is sanctified by hertt with his acceptance of it.
Translation :-We meditate upon pantat, the language of feta-the language, in which every word is full of natural sweetness ( or can be easily understood even by dull persons because it is free from artificiality ) [ 3151SHEZIC991], the language which expresses the very essence of things or points to the supreme bliss ( Tarefarfall) and which assumes the forms of various other languages.
*P=Page of the Sanskrta text, A=Adh yāya, S=Sutra.
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