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Shri Jaina Confertnce Herald.
This mode of expression is quite common. A man being an atheist on reading षड्दर्शनसमुच्चय of H turns out to his right sense and becomes a Jain. Can we ever regard it as a want of modesty or even a presemption on his part if be says in acknowledgment of his greatfulnese that the book was composed for him. Thereby of course he does not lose sight of the fact that so many generations are already benefitted by the book. In my opinion this is quite a natural trend of the expression of deep sense of duty.
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This theory easily explains the two more afta relating to H. They are as under:
verses of the
विषं विनिर्धूय कुवासनामयं, व्यचीचरयः कृपया सदाशये । अचिंत्य वीर्येण सुवासनासुधा, नतोस्मि तस्मै हरिभद्रसूरये ॥
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आचार्य हरिभद्रो मे geaià zgāt ga
धर्मबोधक गुरु |
a gaià fìàfza: ||
Now what is the function of धर्मबोधकर in the first प्रस्ताव ? The whole thing is done by and while the function of an is beset with so many attendances that his function purely turns out to be useful to him on references only. so. also his विमलालोक अंजन, तत्त्वप्रीतिकरपाणी and महाकल्याणकपरमान are symbolical showing that all these have been gathered from the reference. At p. 80 of fas. I is said to be endowed with all the knowledge future and past of himself which Sid. very well knew that H. was not. My meaning is that Sid. never saw Hari, he never came into his contact and that what he ascribes to him is simply a repetition of the common form of an Indian poetical expression. At the most it can bǝ taken as an exagger ation (a figure of speech ), but it not only disproves the theory of both the personages being contemporaries, but the words aaa qara distinctly separ..tes them by a wide gulf. One more possible explanation is that the ascription of the function of a being rather imaginative and symbolical, the words.
