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Age. Samvat 1527. Author of the text-Somasundara Sūri, pupil of Jñan asagara Sūri,
pupil of Devasundara Sūri of the Tapă gaccha. Over and above Aşțadašastavi he has composed Kalpantarvacya, "Jinapañcakastora (in different languages ), 'Yugadijinastava and Caturvimšatijınabkavo kirtnastavana. Besides, he is an author of the following two Gujarātī works in verse :
(1) Taitin and ( 2 )' 47 HEF '.
Further he has composed a Gujarāti bālāvabodha on the following works: --
BITIEUTENAI, STĦAITI, Rat, Jinsia, FięHTI and AETTAT.
Moreover, he has composed an avacūrņi on the following Präkrit works :
( 1 ) 373192 FETT ( 2 ) 237, (3) agHIE,
बंदणगभास, पञ्च खाणभास and सत्तरिया.' „ of the avacūrņi.-Somadeva Gani, pupil of Somasundara Suri. Subject. – Nine stotras so composed as to contain all the forms of
the pronoun yuşmad joined with other words forming a 'Bahuvrihi' Samāsa. These are explained in Sanskrit For a parallel work dealing with forms of asmad see Yuşmacchabdanavastavi.
The first stavi consists of nine hymns. Of them the first is a panegyric of Lord Pārśva and the fifth that of Pārśva and Lord Supārsva. The second hymn eulogizes
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1-3 These are published in Jaina-stotra-samuccaya on pp. 99-106, 19-24 and 237-247 respectively.
4 For this pbāga and several other ones see my article "egori '10' fral" published in " Jaipa Satya Prakāśa" (Vol. XI, No. 6).
5 For its bālāva bodba' see Vc. XVIII, pt. I, No. 248 where some details about Somasundara Sūri are given.
6-8 See p. 18 of Vol. XVII, pt. 5.
9 According to Muni Caturvijayaji he is an author of Yatijitakalpa, Nemi. nāthanavarasapbāga, Kalyāņakastava ard Ratnakośa. See his introduction (pp. 78-79) to Jainastotrasandoha (pt. I ). Some say that he has composed 8 Guj, bālāyabodbe on Bhaktāmarastotra.
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