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are supposed to exude warmth and devotion. It however, goes to his credit that, more often than not, he has not over stepped the bounds of moderation. Some of his stotras are characterised by an admixture of sanskrit and Prakrit, as a feat also exploited by others.
Samayasundara has tried his hand at the popular feat of samasyapurti as well. In the Jinasimhasūri padotsave-kavya, he has sought to incorporate the last quarter of each verse of Raghuvamsa, Canto Three, in the body of his poem to describe the function, arranged with fanfare by Prime Minister Karmacanda Bacchavat, to celebrate the elevation of his teacher Jinasimhasuri to the rank of Acārya. Even while describing an event, so distinctlyapart from the original, the beauty of Kālidāsa's lines has been retained, almost intact. A transcript of the poem is said to exist in the Abhaya Jaina Granthālaya, Bikaner.
The Rsabha-bhaktāmara stotra (RBS)25, though written by way of samasyāpūrti of Manatunga's famed hymn, the Bhaktāmara, represents a pole apart from the literary trickery. Despite the constraints of the samasyapurti, the RBS is distinguished by pleasing lucidity and deep religious fervour that seems to set at naught all else, howsoever attractive and appealing that may be. The similarity of theme has been instrumental in securing the warmth of devotion that pervades the stotra. It reads like a spontaneous outpoouring of an emotionally surcharged heart. Sweet phraseology, repeatedly enlivened by Anuprasa, serves to assure it a high place in the galaxy of devotional hymns. The verses, instanced below, would testify to its veracity. नमेन्द्रवन्द्र कृतभद्र जिनेन्द्र चन्द्रे
HTHGY-FEL-Fargu-fall त्वमूर्तिरर्तिहरणी तरणी मनोज्ञे
वावलम्बन भवजले पततां जनानाम् ॥१॥ भास्वद्गुणाय करणाय मुदोरणाय
विद्याचणाय कमल प्रतिमेक्षणाय। सल्लक्षणाय जनताकृतरक्षणाय
तुभ्यं नमो जिन ! भवोदधिशोषणाय ॥२६॥
Written in V.S. 1653 at Idar (Gujrat) for his pupil, the Mangalavāda
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Shri Vijyanand Suri Swargarohan Shatabdi Granth
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