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SANMATI-TARKA.
CHAPTER I. Introductory verse in the form of a panegyric of the teaching of the prophet of Jainism with its peculiar merits :-- सिद्धं सिद्धत्थाणं ठाणमणोवमसुहं उवगयाणं । कुसमयविसासणं सासणं जिणाणं भवजिणाणं ॥१॥
The teaching of Jinas i. e. the Conquerors of attachment and hatred, the teaching with its twelve subdivisions stands supreme on its own merit. For that teaching is the repository of irrefutable matter. That teaching is supremely blissful to those who approach it meekly for protection. That teaching is competent to refute false doctrines of Absolutism.
Here four peculiar qualities of Jaina teaching are referred to :-(i) It is endowed with all the excellences. (ii) It postulates the true nature of things. (iii) It is blissful to those who approach it for protection (iv) and it refutes false doctrines. 1
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