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## Devagam
While Devagam doesn't seem particularly difficult from a general perspective, it becomes very profound and rich in meaning when considered from the viewpoint of special and consequential meanings. Almost all the verses are in the form of sutras. Many verses contain several sutras bound together. The sutra style is generally a style of expression in a very concise form, and therefore, to explain the meaning of the sutras or verses in the form of sutras, one has to go through many things, which can help understand the situation in front of the sutra-maker, any particular opinion or question that was present, which led to its manifestation. Shri Akalankdev has explained the meaning of Devagam in his Ashtshati (equivalent to eight hundred verses) commentary in the form of sutras. But from the point of view of the subject, these sutras have become so difficult and inaccessible that even good scholars, let alone ordinary scholars, cannot easily understand them. Taking the aforementioned Ashtshato-bhashya, Shri Vidyānandācārya has written an ornamentation called Ashtsahasri (eight thousand verses) on Devagam, which makes the sutra-meaning of Ashtshati clear and reveals its depth and complexity. This Ashtsahasri-tika is also full of difficult words from the point of view of the subject, and therefore, a scholar Yashvijay (Shvetambara Acharya) had to write a commentary on it, which also became equivalent to eight thousand verses. This makes it even clearer how profound, deep and rich in meaning the original text is.
Vidyānandācārya himself has called Ashtsahasri 'Kastsahasri', meaning that its creation was done by enduring thousands of hardships, and this is not hidden from those knowledgeable readers who create such research-oriented important texts, they experience that hardship at every step - it is not something that ordinary knowledgeable readers can understand. It is true, what is the pain of childbirth to a barren woman? Acharya Mahāśaya has said one thing in this Ashts...