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Benediction on the part of the author of the commentary
8. Exuding the fragrance of collaboration by comradeship of Sri-Jinaprabha-sūri"). May the commentary Syad-vida-mañjarī garland the ears of good people. (244)
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9. To Lord Sri-Hemacandra who from conquest of (the) Kali (Age) is on the Jina scale, By me devotion has been published in the guise of composition of a commentary on the Laudation composed by him.
So I do not beseech good people to elucidate merits and refutations of my own sayings; Seeing that honouring, the unfeigning essence of that (devotion), is here perfect").
") Apparently a friend of Mallisena: Jinaprabha is a name well known in Jaina literature.
*) In this verse Mallisena, having already, in v. 4, formulated the usual invitation of correction of any errors in his work, renounces all claim to appreciation of his labours.
