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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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This is a poem on the story of Krşņa apparently composed in imitation of the Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki. In the place of the title Adiká vya applied to the Rāmāyaṇa, this work bears the name Auantara kávya, the later poem. It is stated to have been related by Bhāradvāja. Nothing is kuown about the real author and the date of the composition of the work; but the work must be a modern one, as it is quite unknown. There is reference in the work to Rămănuia
The portion contained in the M8. begins with the creation of the world in the first canto and ends with the marriage of Lakşaņá in the second. The extent of the work is not kuown as the manuscript contains only a fragment thereof.
The colophons at the end of the Sargıs give the following headings:I Kanda, Sarga 1. सृष्टिप्रकरणम्-266 stanzas.
2. Wanting. , 3. 13 leaves only in the beginning ; stanzag
not numbered. 4. द्वारकापुरनिर्माणम्-187 stanzas. 5. Fol. 65 ends with the 91st stanza and fol.
66 is wanting, so the end is not avail
able. ,, , 6. मृगयाविहारः-259 stanzas. II Kanda, Sarga 1. धर्मविचारः-~-32 stanzas. , 2. सानुगिरिमाहात्म्यप्रतिपादनपूर्वकब्रह्मविचा
र:-252 stanzas. रहाजकृतभगवत्साक्षात्कारः-stanzas
not numbered. ,, 4. श्रीभरद्वाजाभीष्टप्रदानम्--144 stanzas.
, 5. लक्ष्मणा(क्षणा)विवाहः-288 stanzas..
, , 6. लक्षणाकुमारोदयः--90 stanzas. Beginning :
मदीया चेन्न स्यात्कृतिरधिकदोषैकवसतिः मवेद्दोषज्ञत्वं विदुषि विषयाभावनिहतम् । गुणा यद्यत्र स्युः सुखमनुभवेल्कि खलजनो न किं प्रीतिः स्वामिन्नपगुणनिबन्धादपि तव ॥ ८ ॥
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