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** प्रकाशकीय **
In 1964, the Veer Seva Mandir Trust published "Samadhimaranotsah Deepak" and now the present work, "Devagam (Aaptamimamsa)" by Swami Samantabhadra is being printed along with its Hindi commentary. This Hindi commentary has been written by the renowned scholar of literature and history, and a devoted follower of Swami Samantabhadra, the learned Pandit Jugalkishorji Mukhtar, the Superintendent of the Veer Seva Mandir Trust. It is not unknown to the learned readers that almost all the available works of Swami Samantabhadra are extremely profound, difficult and complex. Only "Ratnakarandaka Shravakaachar" is a work that is relatively simpler than the others. But it is a theoretical work and therefore its simplicity is natural. The teachings of religion should be in simple language. Among the remaining works of Samantabhadra, "Stuti-Vidya" is a high-quality work of poetry and poetics, which reveals Samantabhadra's scholarship in this field. Devagam, Yuktyanusasan and Swayambhustotra are all philosophical works, which are the representative works of Jain philosophy and which illuminate the entire Jain literature.
It is a matter of joy that Mukhtarsahb has been blessed to be the commentator of the remaining four works, excluding Stuti-Vidya. He himself studied, pondered and practiced these works for years and then wrote commentaries on them. Although he did not learn these works from a guru, yet he understood their essence as well as he presented it in his commentaries, perhaps even someone who learned them from a guru could not do so well. He wrote these commentaries based on commentaries, dictionaries and other texts and he had to work hard for it. As a result, he has proved to be a successful commentator and a deep scholar of these texts.