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Nirvanakalika.
Introduction.
and owing to that merit is able to avoid monotony even in such a work of ritua's. He proceeds in a very smooth manner and keeps up our interest by the variety of subjects he treats of in a masterly manner giving authoritative statements on each of them. The treatment has the merit of thoroughness in a small compass. The sentences and phrases tend to become proverbial and imprint an ineffacable mark in our memory. We feel all along as if we are enjoying a summer-swim while going through the work,
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LIFE OF PADLIPTA.
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The biography of the author has been given in Kathavali & Padlipta Prabandha (Prakrit), Prabhavaka Charitra, in great details and also in Prabandha-Chintamani. Padlipta's mother named Pratima wife of Fulla a merchant in Koshala, which was then ruled by King Vijaya Brahma had for many years no son. She worshipped the goddess Vairotya for having a son. She was told by the goddess to drink water being the foot-wash of Shri Aryanagahastisuri. He was in the line of Kalikacharya called the dynasty of Vidya dharas which started from Nami and Vinami the tributary Princes of thefirst Lord or Tirthankara Rishabhadeva, who were given the Vidyas presided over by 16 Vidyadevis viz. Rohini and others along with the
Kingdom of Vaitadhya by the Serpent-King Dharanendra. Hemachandracharya in his "Trishashtishalaka-18 #Purusha-Charitra" narrates the annecdote, and says that the Vidyadharas were divided in 16 groups
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