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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Every prayer is composed of four poems, addressed to the prayed Tirthaukar, to ail 24 Tirthapkars, to the Holy Scriptures and to the particular goddess respectively. Kavi Sobhan has paid a great deal of attention to forms and not less than eighteen various types of forms of verses are inade use of. Rhetorical figures and a variety of meters enrich the composition. Illiteration illuminates the versification. The arrangement of Padas is masterly wonderful. Nay, even from the grammatical view point, “ the stutis " stand marvellously infallible.
Indeed, the author's creation is the ontcome of his own thoughts. feelings and observation. Hence the present day reader likes to know some thing about the life or the environment of the author before going through the book. But very little was written in the past about the lives of the authors either in their own writings or those of their commentators. However, from the straypieces of information that can be gathered from TilakManjari. Prabhavak-Charitra and other wellknown works of Dhanpal, the learned brother of the learned author, and from the contemporary literature, it is ascertained beyoud doubt, that the name of the author of " Stuti” is Sobhan. In highly learned Brahmin family Sobhan was born probably at Ujjain in Malya. His grandfather Devarshi, lived in the city of Sänkäshya in United Provinces. Thereafter he canie to stay at Ujjain and thence to Dhara with his son Sarvadeva
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