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INTRODUCTION
feat of Lord Mahā vīra, he is perfectly conscious of the inspiring personality of Lord Mahāvīra and the profound depths of his remarkable philosophy. He was mightily influenced by some of the views in Lord Mabā vira's philosophy, and it is because of these rational con victions of his, that he embraced Jaina religion and became it student of Jaina philosophy. It is these points in the philosophy of Mahāvīra that he has described in his own charming manner in his, Stutis and thus evinced his living faith and devotion towards Lord Mahā vīra. In fact, under the garb of showing devotion to Lord Mahā vīra, he has tried to shed quite a new light on his profound philosophy.
III The study of these Dwā. may be divided into two parts (i) Style as well as (ii) Subject matter.
(i) STYLE OF DWĀTRIMŚIKAS The langnage of these Dwã. is Samsksta, bat it is not the ordinary Samskrta language but one as would suit highly philosophical discussions. His writings bristle with many figures of speech and are perfectly dignified and perfectly mature and testify to his being a poet of rare genius. The diction of the verses is as lucid as that of Kālidāsa and transparency (otherwise called Vaidarbhi Rīti ) is its chief merit. There are seventeen different metres employed in all these Dwă. Excepting the seventh Dwā. dealing with the discussion with the fundamental nature of things, all the Dwā, dealing with philosophical discussions are
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