Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrashastra

SR No.: 006540
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, K V Abhayankar
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab
Publication Year: 1944
Total Pages: 635
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English & Culture
File Size: 18 MB

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the latter had composed works bearing names ending with 'Rahasya'. He similarly wrote Mangalavada, Vidhivāda as his contemporaries were using names ending with the word Väda or Treatise,
INTRODUCTION
He came in intimate contact with Yogindra Sri Anandaghana, as appears from Aṣṭapadi or the panegyric of eight verses composed by him in praise of Sri Anandaghana.
He has made much use of 'Aloka' of the famous neo-logician Pakṣadharamiśra in his philosophical works. He was an allround scholar and wrote on philosophy, Yoga as well as Adhyatma. He has adopted several passages of Sri Bhagavadgita and Yogasūtra in his Adhyātmasara and Adhyatmopaniṣad and Dvātrimsikās. He wrote a commentary on Kammapayadi, an old work dealing with Karma philosophy. He wrote in Sanskṛta, Prākṛta and Gujarāti with equal ease and grace. He was a philosopher, logician as well as a poet. He also revised Dharmasamgraha of Upadhyāya Sri Manavijaya and the latter has praised him in its colophon for his vast learning, reasoning and disquisitions full of Pramāņa comparing him to persons who equalled the omniscient through learning. His biographer Sri Kantivijaya called him izzad' or 'Bearded Sarasvati'.* It is unnecessary to enumerate here his many works. He completed the famous Srīpāla Rasa in Gujarati which was commenced by Upadhyāya Sri Vinayavijaya. He has commenced almost all his works with the syllable 'Aim' being the Mantra-bija sacred to Sarasvati having obtained a boon from her at the conclusion of her Sadhana performed by him on the bank of the Ganges in Benares. He has himself stated this fact in his works Mahāvīra-Stava alias Nyaya-khandanakhadya and Jambuswami Rāsa respectively as follows:
* His authoritative biography is contained in 'Sujaśaveli' a metrical work composed by Sri Kantivijaya one of his contemporaries, a complete copy whereof was recently in S. Y. 1984 discovered by the writer's friend Mr. M. D. Desai.
× For a description of his works see pp. 643-645, Short History of Jaina Literature by M. D. Desai.