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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
( 762 )
The work appears to be complete in four chapters. Only the last leaf of the fourth chapter seems to be missing in the present MS. The first chapter incidentally speaks of the rules of worship of the deity while the main purpose of the work is to describe the greatness of the goddess. The last three chapters have each a refrain for the verses in it. The author of the work is possibly identical with a Professor of the same name of the Calcutta Sanskrit College who published translations of the Bhāṣāpariccheda and Prabodhacandrodaya. For an account of the life and works of Kāśīnātha cf. Sāhitya Parişat Patrikā, Vol. 45, pp. 222–231, Vol. 46, p. 80.
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व्याकोषहादशाणे सुविमलकमले ध्यानगम्येतिरम्ये । सम्पर्णेन्दुप्रदीप्तस्फुटनखनिकरं बालमन्दारवर्ण सर्वाभौयस्य सिद्धिं सपदि दिशतु मे श्रीगुरोः पादपद्मम् ॥ १ ॥ कालव्याली कराली कलिकलुषहरा कुण्डली कृषाकाली केशौ कामौ कुली कुलकमलचरौ काव्यकल्लोलकण्ठौ । कल्याणौ शहन्त्री कमलजनिलया काव्यदा कल्पवल्ली
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74B, इति श्रीकाशीनाथतर्कपञ्चाननविरचिते श्रीश्यामासन्तोषणनामस्तोत्रे प्रथमोल्लासः; 88A, द्वितीयोल्लासः; 99B, ०टतीयोल्लासः । The date of the composition of the work (Fol. 104B):--
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