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376 13TH ALL INDIA ORIENTAL CONFERENCE : PRAKRIT & JAINISM
समनिके मन्मानसदोळ समंतभदांघ्रिनखरकांतिजलं मत्तमलिन कविपरमेष्ठि - क्रमकमलं पूज्यपादपदनखकुमुदं ॥
Candraprabha-purāņam (Mysore 1951 ) I. 20.
भवहरसमंतभद्रर कविपरमेष्ठिगळ पूज्यपादर कारु – । ण्यवरेण्य दुग्धवार्धियों - ळविरतमिर्केम्म चित्तमत्तमरालं ॥
Santisvara-purana ( Mysore 1912) I. 20.
. Then turning to individual references, Gunavarma II ( c. 1235 A. D.) tells us in his Puspadanta-purāna, I. 26 ( Madras 1933) that Kavi Paramesthi's mouth was beautiful with unparallelled speech, that he was praised by the learned, that he was almost the Para-brahman, and that he was no doubt a purāna-purusa:
निरुपमसरस्वतीसुं -- दरचतुरानन नशेषविबुधस्तुत्यं । परमब्रह्मनेनल् कवि --
परमेष्ठि पुराणपुरुषनैबुदु पुसिये ।। Pārsvapandita ( 1205 A. D.) qualifies him as 'guna-jyestha' or 'pre-eminent in virtues' in his Parivapurana:
निष्ठापरत्वदि पर -- मेष्ठिस्तवनमननूनमं माडि गुण --1 ज्येष्ठनेनिसिर्प कविपर --
मेष्ठिगुणस्तवनममर्गे-दल करणीयं ।। Nemicandra (c. 1170) tells us in his Nemināthapurāņa (Mysore 1914) (1. 15-16 ) that Kavi Parameśvara wrote a purāna glorifying 24 Tirthakaras and that Brahman and Sarasvati were waiting on his glory.
जिनर पुराणंगोळी - दने बरेदौडे बरेदेवैरीभुवनं जी -- यनें बरेंदिरिसिदरिर्प -- तुनाल्कम पागळे सुकविपरमेश्वररं ।। सुकवि परमेष्ठिगळ ना - टकवेनिसिद भुवनवंद्यवरविद्याती - र्थकरत्वपुण्यलक्ष्मिगे सकळश्रुतदेवि यक्षि यक्ष बोम्म ।।
