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1. The superior qualities of Sri Vardhamana, the last Tirthawkara
15 (9) Simply because self-originated, therefore to be worshipped by immortals. For the God of Gods, through his quality of being self-illuminated, a mark distinct from the Three Worlds, is worshipped by the Gods, by Indra and his paradise. And the 'Sri-Vardhamana', here expounded as an epithet, is to be understood with contemplation of its recurrence again as a Noun in the self-form called Vardhamāna' in the third quarter of the first "Thirty-two', entitled 'Exclusion of non-system'. For there "sell-form' is a substantive word. A 'superior self is 'the self-form', - the highest Self. That is what it amounts to.
And inversely the epithet also is to be expounded as a noun. Thus the meaning of the first verse.
