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ON SOME NONCANONICAL SUBHAȘITAया सर्वोच्छिष्टवक्ता हितजनभषणा सद्गुणास्पर्शनीया पूर्वाधर्मात्प्रजाता सततमलभृता निन्द्यकृत्यप्रवृत्ता। दानस्नेहा शुनीव भ्रमणकृतरतिश्चाटुकर्मप्रवीणा
योषा सा साधुलोकैरवगतजननैर्दूरतो वर्जनीया ।। It is difficult to call such verses su-bhāșita-s, though they were included in SRS.
12.5.4. However not all the teachings of Amitagati in the SRS. are of this kind; speaking for instance on a similar subjectkāma, though he could have used a stronger language (23.20) he said:
एवमनेकविधं विदधाति यो जननार्णवपातनिमित्तम् । चेष्टितमङ्गजबाणविभिन्नो नेह सुखी न परत्र सुखी सः ।।
12.5.5. The Yogasāra of Amitagati, another of his didactic poems, and his Dvātrimsatikā, a short didactic poem were couched in refine and elegant language, appropriate for a collection of subhāṣita-s; this proves that Amitagati was able to use in his didactic verses a softer language but purposely used in the SRS. the puritanical approach. B. śrgāravairāgya-tarangiņi of Somaprabha 13.1. Another didactic Jaina poem is the Śrågār a-vairāgyatarangini of Soma prabha (śrn g.). This poem, written around A.D. 1246 is concluded in not such a harsh language, though it is a diatribe against women; diatribes against women were favorite topics in Jaina didactic literature.
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Edited in KM.V. 142 and translated into German by R. SCHMIDT in his Liebe und Ehe im alten und modernen Indien, Berlin 1904; pp. 36-43. Also published in Bombay in 1886 with the commentary called Sukhabodhika, Ahmedabad 1891 Cf. M. A. Guérinor in Essar de bibliographie Jaina (Musee Guimet) No. 268; and in JA; s. 10; t. 14; No. 923.
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