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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
वथा च बंकाळकाचार्यः।
तावसिओ विणनाहे, चंदे काबालिओ तहा मणियो। स्तवडो भूमिसुए सोमखुए एभदंतीओ।
देवगुरुसुकोणा कमेग जहचानखवणाई ॥ तथा च वकालकसंहितान्तरं पठ्यते ।
जलणारामुग्मअकेसभरिभणगमग्गेम् ।
दिक्खाणं गाअम्बा सूरावगहा कमेण णाइगमा । Owing to its importance and antiquity, the Kalpasūtra has a large number of commentarice written on it. Most of them are in Sanskrit, though the earliest commentary on the Satra, bately the Cūrni, is written in Prakrit. This Corni is utilised and followed by almost all the subsequeat commentators. As the Sätra bad to be read out and explained before an audience consisting of laymen, there also arose a number of Gujrati and Hindi cotamentaries called the Stabskas or the Balarabodhas, Among the Ssoakrit commentaries, the most important and perhaps the earliest among the exhaustive commentaries, is the Patijiki called Sandehavisausadhi, composed by Jinaprabhastri of the Kharatara Gaocha, in Sarn. 1364. ID explains both the Sutra and ita Niryukti, which latter consists of 68 Gathas and is gonerally ascribed to
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