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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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No. 1276
Extent. fol. 52" to fol. 53b.
Description. Complete. For other details see Namaskaramantra No. 735
Author. Pandit Bechardas Jivraj has written an article' in Gujarati viz. a-far af, and it has been published in a magazine "Aloka" (vol. I, No. 1), Kārtika, Vikrama Samvat 1977. Therein he has said that the author is Vadivetäla Santi Süri; for, in a Ms. dated Samvat 1358 we have the ending line as under :
' इति शान्तिसूरिवादिवेतालीयेऽर्हदभिषेकविधौ सप्तमं शान्तिपर्व समाप्तमिति".
Furthermore, in No. 637 of Brhatṭppanika ( published in Jaina-sahitya-samśodhaka No. 2), we have :श्री शान्तिवेतालिया पर्वपञ्जिका स्नपनविध्यादिवाच्याः
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Brhacchantistava
1269 (59).
1887-91.
Vadivetāla Santi Suri, was a pupil of Vijayasimha Suri. His father's name was Dhanadeva, his mother's name Dhanasri and his own name Bhima. For further particulars see No. 683.
Subject. This work also known as Vṛddhasantistava is looked upon as the last smarana and is recited with a view to having santi.
2 In Jaina Granthavali (p. 153 ), there is an entry as under:
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'अभिषेकावधि १०० वादिवेताल जेसलमेर ".
3 The scribe has styled it as वृद्धिशान्तिस्तव.
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This is not an independent work but it is only a part and parcel of 'Arhadbhişekavidhi' composed by Vadivetāla Santi Sūri. So says Pandit Sukhlal in his Hindi edition (p. 287) of Pañca Pratikramaņa. He supports this statement by saying that the following line occurs in a Ms. dated Samvat 1358, written by Pandit (?) Mahicandra of the Upakeśa gaccha and belonging to a Bhandara at Patan :I Herein the old version of Brhacchantistotra is given along with variants pertaining to the current one.
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