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bright half of the month of Kärttika in the year 1096 of Vikrania. *
All this goes to prove that this Prakarapa might have been composed by Śrî Säntibhadra Sūri in the latter half of the Eleventh Century V. S.
Two commentaries on the Jivavicāra Prakaraṇa seem to have been composed so far. One of them is the Brhadvrtti of Pāthaka Ratnākara written in 1610 V. S. The other-the Laghuvrtti-was written by Muui Ksamākalyānaji in 1785 V. S. In the present volume we have given a digest of the former.
This work summarizes the details of other big treatises so as to introduce the subject to the beginner. It is hoped that the translation and the digest of Sanskrit commentary presented in this volume will be useful to the students of Jaina Philosophy.
Nutan Sarva Vidyālaya
Visnagar 20 : 3 : 1950
J. P. Thaker
+ श्रीनेमि हृदये चक्रुः प्रायोपवेशनम् ॥ १२५ ॥ धर्मध्यानाग्निनिर्दग्धभवातिवितते(विदते)ऽथ सः । अज्ञातक्षुत्नुषानिद्राप्रभृत्यन्तप्रतीतयः ॥ १२८ ॥ समाधिना व्यतीत्याथ दिनानां पञ्चविंशतिम् । वैमानिकसुरावासमधिजग्मुर्जगन्नताः ॥ १२९॥ श्रीविकमसंवत्सरतो वर्षसहस्रं गते स षण्णवतौ । शुचिसितनवमी कुजकृत्तिकासु शान्तिप्रभोरभूदतम् ॥ १० ॥
--प्रभावकचरितम् ।
