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## The Bharata Purana
This is the story of Adinath, based on the prose narrative spoken by the divine poet. It contains all the characteristics of meters and figures of speech, it has subtle meaning and profound words, its description is extremely excellent, it reveals the best essence of all scriptures, it rejects other poems, it is worth listening to, it is acceptable to men of developed intellect, it destroys the pride of false poets and it is extremely beautiful. This has been said by Bhagwan Jinsen, who comments on the principle texts and rules over disciples for a long time. Its remaining part has been collected in brief by Gunabhadra Sari, who has a pure intellect, due to fear of excessive expansion and at the request of the inferior times.
The Adi Purana is a treasure trove of proverbs: To clarify this point, two very beautiful verses are found in the Uttar Purana, whose meaning is as follows:
"Just as precious gems are born from the sea, so too are proverbs born from this Purana."
"Those proverbs which are not easily found in other texts, even after a long time, are readily available in this Purana, verse by verse, and can be collected as desired."
See the greatness of the Adi Purana in the words of a poet, how beautiful the description is - "O friend! If you want to become a connoisseur by listening to the sayings of all poets, then bring your ears close to hear the Adi Purana spoken from the lotus mouth of the great poet Jinsenacharya."
A scholar has also said in praise of the entire Mahapurana:
"In this Mahapurana there is religion, there is the path to liberation, there is poetry, and there is the character of the Tirthankaras, or whose mind is not captivated by the words that have come out of the lotus mouth of the poet Jinsenacharya?"
Why is this Purana called Mahapurana? Jinsenacharya himself answers:
"This text has been prevalent since ancient times, therefore it is called Purana, it describes the Mahapuranas or the great men like Tirthankaras have preached it, or by reading it one attains great welfare, therefore it is called Mahapurana."
"It has spread with the support of ancient poets, therefore its antiquity is well known, and its importance is known only from its greatness, therefore it is called Mahapurana."
"This Purana is related to great men and is the heaven of great progress, the cause of liberation etc., therefore the great sages call it Mahapurana." - "This text is considered to be a scripture because it is written by sages, it is strong because it describes the truth, and it is a scripture of religion because it is a model of religion."