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Arhat Pārsva and Dharanendra Nexus
एकस्य दत्तां पदवीमुदीक्ष्य किं, तदर्थिनोऽष्टौ फणभृत्-कुलाग्रिमाः । भजन्त्यमी यं फणलांछनच्छलात्, पार्श्वप्रभुः रातु स वांछितानि वः ॥ २४ ॥
- श्री चतुर्विंशतिजिनस्तव
Contemporaneous pontiffs of the Kharatara-gaccha did not lag behind in composing hymns to Pārsva, the one by Jinasamudra Súri (c. mid 15th century) addressed to the Parsvanātha of Jaisalmer (founded in A.D.1417), has a fine verse pertinent to the present survey of Pārśva hymns. 54
यत्ते व्याधायि कमठेन कठोरघोरधाराकरालजलवृष्टिरिहोपरिष्टात् । तेनैष केवलमवीवृधदात्मनो वै दुःकर्मवल्लिवनमेव चिरप्ररूढम् ॥ ४॥ स्फूर्जत्फणामणिधरं धरणं भजन्तं यच्चापि पातकमळं कमळं द्विषन्तम् । त्वं मन्यसे सदृशमीदृशमीश ! लोको नीरागताविलसितं लसितं तवैव ॥ ५॥
- श्री जैसलमेरुमंडन-पार्श्वनाथ स्तुति
The Sūri was equally at home, even in that late age, with Prāksta as is clear from the Stuti-caturvimśitikā in which he refers to Päráva with Dharanendra:55
पायडियसत्ततत्तो, धरणिंदसरीरफणकडप्पेणं । तुट्टभववासपासो, पासो मह मगलं देउ ॥ २३॥
- सिरि थुतिचउविसी That reminds us of the references to Pārsvanātha and Phanindra in two other Prāksta compositions by unknown authors and possibly of this general age - the second definitely was composed between A.D. 1437 and 1459 - both possessing poetic pretensions: 56
देही वत्तविवन्नपन्नगफणा-छत्तेण छन्नंबरो, सामासामसरीरओ रयतमोमुक्को समुक्कोसओ । वामाए विसुओऽसुरामरनई-नीहारसेलोवमो, सो पासो भववासपासयसमं सज्जो पसाहिज्ज मे ॥ २३॥
- श्री स्तुतिचतुर्विंशतिका
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