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Preface
ordained by the glorious king Kumarapala, who by a canopy of teachings describable as an ambrosial stream descended upon the earth was made the supreme Jain, - was composed, in the form of a laudation of Jina Sri-Vardhamana), following the thirty-two 'Thirty-two's composed by the world-famous Siddhasena-divākara"), a pair of 'Thirty-two's called "Rescinding of non-system", and Rescinding of other systems", requisite for truth-discernment in the minds of learned people. Commentary on the first "Thirty-two' of these being, because of esay comprehension, eschewed, here, by expounding some topics of the second (Thirty-two), which is well adapted for refuting the whole company of wrong disputants, is essayed a method of awakening the seed of my own memory. And thereof the first verse is this,--
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8) Personal name of Mahavira.
*) Author (VII th-VIII th century A. D.) of a great controversial work, Sammati-tarka, on reasoning, of a manual of Logic, Nyāyāvatāra, and other Jain texts of Logic and edification.
