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Introduction
as Sthānāriga, Ācārārga, Sūtrak?tāriga, Samavāyārga, Bhagavati, Nandi, Uttarādhyayana, Daśavai kālika Jambūdvi paprajñāapti etc., the non-canonical Jaina works such as Adhyātmakalpadruma, Aștapāhuda, Ātmānuśāsana, Karmagrantha, Gommațasāra, Tattvārthastītra, Dravyasarigraha Devāgamastotra, Padmanandi pañcavinissati, Pravacanasāra, Bhagavati ārādhanā, etc., the non-Jaina works such as Yogavāśiştha, Bhāgavata, Vicārasāgara, Maniratnamālā, Panjikarana, Vairāgyaśataka, Dāsabodha, Sundaravilāsa, Prabodhasataka, Gîtā etc.. Besides, Śrīmad has quoted from and sometimes commented on works like Prakaraņa Ratnākara, Sarvodaya jñāna,ĀnandaghanaCovīši, Pancāstikāya, Samayasāra Nātaka, Uddhava Gitā, Srípălarāsa, Devāgamastotra, Yogaśāstra, Samādhisataka, Lokatattvanirnaya etc.. In addition to this he has freely quoted saint poets such as Narasimha, Dayārāma, Prītama, Kabīra, Muktānanda, Akhā, Manoharadāsa, Mīrā, Sahajānanda, Chotama etc.. This also shows that śrīmad had a good knowledge of languages such as Sanskrit, Prakrit, Hindi, Gujarati etc.. Thus he mastered the contents of various philosophical and religious works written in various languages in a very short time. It was simply due to his extraordinary intelligence, grasping power, phenomenal memory, an
