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________________ , and philosophy. The book contains 119 prayers to the Jain Prophets or Tirthankaras from the pens of difierent writers belonging to different periods of time. Although the general subject matter be the same for all pieces which are all devotional prayers, there is yet seen an abundant variety of topics, ideas, expressions, sentiments, styles and metres and the volume presents an immense interest alike to a historian as well as to a philosopher, to a bard as also to a story teller, to a grammarian as well as to a linguist, to a poet as also to a psychologist, to a critic as also to an amateur and lastly, to a rhetorician as also to a prosodist. The work may well occupy a place not on. ly among literary compositions but among religious books also. The arrangement of prayers which is mainly based on chronological data has been very happy and no pains have been spared by the editor and the publisher in collecting the material and presenting it. The book deserves a place in the cupboards of recognized libraries, on the book shelves of scholars and students and inside the sanctuaries and shrines of saints and devoted householders. The book is a very suitable one for the study of Ardba - Māgadhi and Jain Literature and
SR No.002613
Book TitleJainstotrasandohe Part 1
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorChaturvijay
PublisherSarabhai Manilal Nawab
Publication Year1932
Total Pages662
LanguageSanskrit, Gujarati
ClassificationBook_Devnagari & Literature
File Size19 MB
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