________________ Introduction on pages 30 and 40 of the notes. It is again further emphasized by the Sage Munichanda before King Shripala and bis queen Madanasundari in Sts. 190 to 194, 206 to 225 and 238 to 242. What does he say ? * He says that the propitiation of the Siddhachakra formed by the Nine Dignities is the only faultless and sinless remedy for removing all the pains, miseries and diseases of this world. It is the root-cause of all our happiness of this as well as the next world. In short, it is the One Supreme Thing which constitutes the very essence of the whole of the Jaina Religion. As the author says in St. 192: "एएहिं नवपएहिं, रहिअं अन्नं न अत्थि परमत्थं / एएसुच्चिअ जिणसासणस्स सव्वस्त अवयारो // " / Hence it is due to the power of the propitiation of the Navapada that many a soul were enabled to be emancipated in the past, are enabled at present and will be enabled to be so in future, and thus obtain the lordship of all the three worlds by their attaining to the position of a Tirthankara or a Siddha. The Navapada is thus a Desire-yielding Tree which fulfils the desires of the minds of those who propitiate it. It is said to be the very
