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________________ Error! No text of specified style in document. ationoftheBhaktamara.ButthenProf.JacobiraisesanotherimportantpointinsayingthattheKalyan Mandir Stotrai snottheworkofSiddhasenaDiwakarbutsomeonecalledKumudchandra.Hesays: "OurinformationabouttheauthoroftheKalyan Mandirisveryscantyoralmostnil.Ithasbeenalreadystatedthathec omposedthis StotrainimitationoftheBhaktamara.HealludestohisnameKumudchandrainthelastverseofthekal yanMandir,inthesamewayasMantungahasintroducedhisnameinthelaststropheoftheBhaktamara.Thecomm entatorsaverthattheauthorwas SiddhasenaDiwakar,andthekumudchandrawasbutanothernameofthatfamou steacher. Thisassertion, however, isopentogravedoubts.ForintheextantworksofSiddhasenaDiwakarthename Kumudchandraisnotfound. Butinhisfifth Dwatrishinka,whichisatruestotra, hasintroducedthename Siddhasena justasMantungaandKumudchandradidalludetotheirnamesinthecorrespondingpassagesoftheirstotras. Whys hould SiddhasenanothaveretainedthenamecontainedintheKalyan Mandir Stotraifhehadbeentheauthorofit?W epossessseveralhymnsofSiddhasena..[whichjareentirelydifferentinconceptionandstylefromtheKalyan Mand ir. Itistherefore, almostcertainthatKumudchandrashouldnotbeidentifiedwith Siddhasena Diwakar. ThispointnaturallythrowsmoredoubtontheauthorshipoftheKalyan Mandir Stotra. Andthewholestudyofwhenan dhowitwascomposedtakesaninterestingturn. HoweveritisnoteworthythatmanyscholarsinIndiadonotagreewit hProf.Jacobi'sopinionandtheyfirmlybelievethatKumudchandrais Siddhasena Diwakarandthatheistheauthoro ftheKalyan Mandir Stotra.Ifwearetogobythis, thenwecansafelysaythattheKalyan Mandirisnotanimitationofthe BhaktamaraStotra.AsthereseemstobenodoubtaboutthefactthatSiddhasenaDiwakarwasbornbeforetheauth oroftheBhaktamara Stotra. OnemayalsothinkalongthelinethatperhapstheBhaktamaraStotrawascomposedinimitationofthe Kalyan Mandi rStotra. MantungacharyahasprobablyadoptedthestyleandmethodofcompositionthatisfoundinKalyan Mandir Stotra.Onemayneverfindout. 2/8.10riginal Sutra कल्याण-मंदिरमुदारमवद्य भेदि, भीताभय-प्रदमनिन्दितमध्रि-पद्मम; संसार-सागर-निमज्जदशेष-जन्तुपोतायमानमभिनम्य जिनेश्वरस्य. यस्य स्वयं सुरगुरुर्गरिमाम्बुराशेः, स्तोत्रं सुविस्तृतमतिर्न विभुर्विधातुम्; तीर्थेश्वरस्य कमठ-स्मय-धूमकेतो, स्तस्याहमेष क्लि संस्तवनं करिष्ये (युग्मम्) सामान्यतोऽपि तव वर्णयितुं स्वरूपमस्मादृशाः कथमधीश! भवन्त्यधीशाः?; धृष्टोऽपि कौशिक-शिशुर्यदिवा दिवान्धो, रूपं प्ररूपयति किं किल घर्मरश्मेः?...... मोहक्षयादनुभवन्नपि नाथ! मत्यो, Page 4 of 23
| SR No. | 300570 |
| Book Title | 59 Kalyan Mandir Stotra |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Purvacharya |
| Publisher | ZZZ Unknown |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 1 |
| Language | Gujarati |
| Classification | Audio_File, Ritual_text, & Sutra_Svetambar |
| File Size | 27 MB |