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Ancient Jaina Hymns
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preceding one.
It proclaims to be a creation of Ācārya Jinapati Sūri, the 46th pontiff of the Kharatara Gaccha, whose name is contained in the last stanza, in a śleșa characteristic of the former223, and whose Guru, Ācārya Jinacandra Sūri, is likewise alluded to, in the third stanza.
Jinapati Sūri224 was born in V.S. 1210, ordained in 1218, invested with Ācārya title in 1223, and died in 1277. He is known not only as an influential pontiff and the Guru of celebrities like Ācārya Jineśvara Sūri (his successor ), Upādhyāya Jinapāla, Vācaka Sūraprabha, Pūrņabhadra Gani and Sumati Gani, but also as a hymnist and author of commentaries. The following works are from his hand :
(i) Caturviņśati-Jina-stavana, published, 225 (ii) Cintāmaņi-Pārsvanātha-stava, likewise published,226 (iii) Antariksa-Pārsva-stava, not found as yet, (iv) Tīrthamālā, likewise not found as yet,
(v) Vidhiprabodha-vādasthala ( Prabodhodaya-vādasthala), available in manuscripts, 227
(vi) Brhat-tīkā to Jinavallabha's Samghapattaka-prakarana, published,228
(vii) Vivaraņa to Jineśvara Sūri’s Pañcalingi, published, 229 and,
(viii) Mahāvira-stuti, published and mentioned for the first time in this volume.
The Mahävīra-stuti consists of four Mālini stanzas, the first of which eulogizes Mahāvīra, while the fourth invokes the ‘Yakşa Sarvānu'.
The name 'Sarvänu' looks like a sanskritization of Prākrta Savvāna', which occurs in the 'Vihāya-pannatti', the 'Bhagavati' of the Jainas ( Šataka III, Uddeśa 7, Sūtra 168, p. 200 ), in the description of the retinue of Vesamaņa ( Saṁskṛta “Vaiśramaņa' or ‘Kubera'), one of the four Lokapālas230 or frontier-guard officers of
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