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N. M. Kansara
Jambū-jyoti
Naiva khyāpayituṁ vyadhāyi caritaṁ rītim vidarbhodbhavāṁ bhaktim kintu punaḥ punar na gaditaṁ śrī-padma-lakṣmaprabhoh // 4.1399, p. 498.
This verse is meant to express the author's intention behind undertaking the composition of this Carita-mahākāvya, and is a part of the Prasasti composed in Prakrit Gäthās.
34. Tarkan adhitya devendra-guroḥ siddhāntam-āditaḥ / Śrī-Haribhadrasūribhyas-caritaṁ nirmame mayā // 4.1401.
This verse is also a sort of acknowledgement about his teachers by the author, and forms a part of the Prakrit Prasasti, which is not composed separately, but rather as a part of the Fourth Prastāva, from Gāthās 1378 to the last one, i.e. 1403. It is noteworthy that this fashion of incorporating Sanskrit Subhāṣitas was popular with our author's predecessors like Vardhamānasūri and Candrasūri also1o. And, further, it is noteworthy that the poet seems to have given the colophones, marking the intervening substories, in Sanskrit, as for instance 'Iti dana-dharme Hamsapāla-kathānakam' (p. 35), 'Iti tapasi Rohiṇīkathā samāptā' (p. 99), 'Ity-antaranga-kathā samāptā' (p. 162), 'Iti śrī-Padmaprabha-caritaṁ samāptaṁ' (p. 499), etc. At the end of the work, the final Prasasti by the Samgha and the scribe is also in Sanskrit.
Annotations:
1. Siri Devasuri's Paumappahasāmi Cariyam (PPC), L.D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad 1995 (L.D. Series 116), Ed. Rupendrakumar-Pagariya, Prastāvanā (Hindi), p. 25.
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Śrī-Haribhadrasūribhyaś-caritaṁ nirmame mayā // Bālacando... (4.1385) ... Gunabhaddasūri guruno... (4.1386) ... Savväṇamdaguru... (4.1387) cariyam siri-Pāsāsāmissa... (4.1388)..siri-Dhammaghosapahune.. (4.1389)... Tappayapayaṭṭhiehim kaihim siri-Devasūri-nāmehiṁ / Paumappahassa pahuṇo cariyam raiyam kayacchariyam // 4.1391; 4.1401 Tarkan adhitya Devendraguroḥ
siddhantam aditaḥ/
2. Ibid., 4.1393: ...veri-Bhima-bhimassa / Cālukka-vamsa-munino niravajje rajjasamayammi//
3. Ibid., 4.1392: Veya-sara-sūra-paramiya (1254) varise niva-Vikkamassa varisão/ 4.1394 Siri-Vaddhamaṇa-nayare thiena Pajjunna-seṭṭhi-vasahihë/ Siri
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