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OBEISANCE (FOR BHAGAVATI BHĀŞYA)
Obeisance to (Scriptural Articulation) Let us pay our obeisance with cheerful mind to the Scriptural Articulation (of apta-the Lord), in which every aksara (letter) has become aksara (imperishable) in revealing the Truth; which has incarnated through the path of kaivalya (i.e., omniscience); which has been preserved for a long time; which is destroyer of the darkness (of ignorance); and which is elegant and worthy of paying obeisance to
Obeisance to Vīra (i.e., Mahāvīra) Let us all follow the foot-steps of the Lord Vira who was the authentic exponent of the doctrine of puruşārtha (self-exertion) of the puruşa (i.e., the soul); who forebore everything that happened by engrossing himself in his own (inner) consciousness; and who gave the sūtra of samanvaya (harmony) as the first step to the enlightened world-view.
Obeisance to Bhikṣu (Let us pay our n'eisance to) Rev. Bhikṣu who wrote the poetry on the verses of agama, which were difficult to comprehend through intelligence; who perceived the path of pathlessness through his spontaneous wisdom; whose guidance is available to us because of our own fate which has become the determinant of editing the āgamas.
Obeisance to Jaya and Kālu (Let us pay our obeisance to) Rev. Jayacharya, who milked the cow of the literature of the āpta, which had been nourished for a long time and who as if made sun-rise in the Order of Bhikşu and whose every articulation became the seed that was sown in the fertile (land) of that sunrise; and (Rev.) Kalu whose well-contemplated idea became a new inscription (for us).
Obeisance to the Synod-chief Gaņādhipati Tulsi (Let us pay obeisance to) Rev. Gaņādhipati Tulsi, the Synod-chief, whose intellect was responsible for all innovations; in fact, it was all his contributions; this innovation of writing the Bhásya in Hindi, the national language, is indeed a new experiment in the Bhasyayuga (i.e., age of writing Bhāsyas).
Bowed down with all humbleness :
Ācārya Mahāprajña
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