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the two sacred places of pilgrimage viz. Shatrunjaya and Girnar. He says that Bhadrabahu-Swami ||0| Intro composed them and these must be tho Kalpa-Pahuda already mentioned. Vajraswami classified them and
duction Padliptasuri abridged them. The hint here given of the connection between Vajraswami and Padliptasuri 16 has been already considered.
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PALITANA AND VIRA STUTI.
It is interesting to note that Padliptasuri is connected with the foundation of the Palitana City in the vicinity of Shatrunjaya hill and is said to have installed an image of Mahavira Swami at the place at the requst of Nagarjuna. The etymological meaning of "Palittana" is "of Palitta" which is the name of the author of the present work. The Prabhavaka Charitra mentions that Padlipata composed on the occason of installation of Mahavira-Swamiat Palitana Vira-Stuti beginning with the words "TTET ". It is also there stated to contain Akasha-gamini Vidya and Suvarna-Siddhi. Fortunately, the Stuti has been found in my collection though in a slightly mutilated form. Having however two versions of the Stuti before me I have been able to give below the Stuti with Protanto reading. I have to acknowledge here the aid given by Pandit HargovindJas of the Calcutta University in giving a sensible reading of the second verse. The stuti runs as follown:
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