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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
(1276.
बृहच्छान्तिस्तव
Brhacchāntistava No. 1276
1269 (59).
1887-91. Extent.-- fol. 526 to fol. 536. Description.- Complete. For other details see Namaskāramantra
No. 735. Author.- Pandit Bechardas Jivraj has written an article in Gujarāti
viz. बृहद-शान्तिनो कर्ता, 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 Vadivetāla śānti Sûri ; for, in a Ms. dated Samvat 1358 we have the ending line as under :
"इति शान्तिसूरिवादिवेतालीयेऽहंदभिषेकविधौ' सप्तमं शान्तिपर्व FATTAR".
Furthermore, in No. 637 of Byhattppanika ( published in Jaina-sāhitya-samsodhaka No. 2), we have :
“salatenangan ar gået frafalegrianieur:”
Vadivetāla Santi Sūri, was a pupil of Vijayasimha Suri. His father's name was Dhanadeva, his mother's name Dhanasri and his own name Bhima. For further par
..ticulars see No. 683. Subject. This work also known as Vrddha'antistava3 is looked
upon as the last smarana and is recited with a view to having śānti.
This is not an independent work but it is only a part and parcel of ‘Arhadbhisekavidhi' composed by Vadivetāla Sänti Sūri. So says Pandit Sukhlal in his Hindi edition (P. 287) of Panca Pratikramana. 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 Bhandāra at Patan :1 Herein the old version of Byhacchāntistotra is given along with variants pertaining to the current one. 2 In Jaina Granthüvali (p. 153 ), there is an entry as under:
"TEEN 1918 poo ataars TASH". 3 The scribe has styled it as वृद्धिशान्तिस्तव,
