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## Introduction
"Though he was thin in body, he was not thin in the qualities of tapas. Indeed, thinness of body is not thinness. He who is thin in qualities is truly thin."
"Those who did not take up the skull (kapalika, a vessel used for floating in the Sankhya school of thought) nor did they think excessively, yet they attained the second shore of spiritual knowledge."
"Whose time was spent continuously in the worship of knowledge, and therefore the true seers call them a body of knowledge."
Jinsen was not only a master of the Siddhanta, but also a poet of the highest order. His poetry has strength (oj), sweetness (madhury), clarity (prasad), flow (pravaha), style (shaili), rasa, and alankaras. Wherever there was a need, the poet expressed that emotion in that style. He truly preferred to discuss reality, and it was not his nature to twist the truth to please others. He openly says that the poet should do his duty, whether the other person is satisfied or not. It is not good to worship another, but it is good to give advice on the right path.
So far, the following works have been discovered by him:
**Parvaabhyudaya:** In Sanskrit literature, Kalidasa's Meghaduta is a very famous short poem. Its composition and sentiment are both beautiful. Based on its fourth stanza, many short poems like Hasaduta, Nemiduta, etc. have been written. Jinsen Swami's Parvaabhyudaya Kavya, which is complete in 364 Mandakranta verses, is a solution to Kalidasa's Meghaduta. In it, verses have been composed taking one or two stanzas of Meghaduta, and in this way, the entire Meghaduta has been incorporated into this Parvaabhyudaya Kavya. Parvaabhyudaya is the first independent work written by solving the problem of Meghaduta. Its language and style are very beautiful. After the initiation ceremony of Lord Parshvanath, he is seated in the posture of the image (pratima-yoga). From there, a celestial being named Shambara emerges and, with his knowledge of the mind, considers him his enemy and begins to cause him various troubles. This is the story on which Parvaabhyudaya is based. In it, Shambaradeva is considered a Yaksha, Jyotirbhava is considered Alka, and the Yaksha's curse is considered Shambara's curse. The plot of Meghaduta is different and the plot of Parvaabhyudaya is different, yet to tell different stories with the same words is the great skill of the poet. In solving the problem, the poet has to be very dependent, and due to that dependence, the scattered composition, let alone the reference composition, inevitably becomes dull, but in this Parvaabhyudaya, no dullness has been found anywhere, which is a matter of joy. This poem was composed by Shri Jinsen Swami at the inspiration of his disciple Vinayasen, and it seems to be his first work.
1. "He who was thin in body, but not thin in the qualities of tapas. For thinness is not bodily, but he who is thin in qualities is truly thin."
2. "He who did not take up the skull (kapalika) nor did he think excessively, yet he attained the second shore of spiritual knowledge."
3. "Whose time was spent continuously in the worship of knowledge, and therefore the true seers call them a body of knowledge."
4. "Shri Virasen Muni, the bee of the lotus of the teachings, was great, but Vinayasen Muni was even greater