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ANCIENT JAINA HYMNS
(2) Cintāmaņi-Pārsvanātha-stava, likewise publish
ed, (3) Antariksa-Pārsva-stava, not found as yet, , (4) Tirthamālā, likewise not found as yet, (5) Vidhiprabodha-vādasthala (Prabodhodaya
vādasthala), available in MSS., (6) Bịhat-tikā to Jinavallabha's Sanghapattaka
prakaraña, published, (7) Vivarana to Jinesvara Sūri's Pañcalingi, .
published," and (8) Mahāvīra-stuti, published and mentioned
for the first time in this volume. The Mahāvīra-stuti consists of four Mālini stanzas, the first of which eulogizes Mahīvīra, while the fourth invokes the “Yaksa Sarvānu”.
The name "Sarvānu” looks like a sanskritization of Prakrit “Savvāņa”, which occurs in the “Vihāyapannatti”, the “Bhagavati" of the Tainas (Sataka III, Uddeļa 7, Sūtra 168, p. 200), in the description of the retinue of Vesamaņa (Sanskrit “Vaisramaņa" or "Kubera"), one of the four Lokapālas' or frontier-guard officers of Sakra, the Indra of the southern part of the first Heaven "Saudharma”. There, "Savvāņa" is mentioned along with a number of other godlings, such as Māṇibhadra and Pūrṇabhadra, known to belong to the "Yaksa” sub-class of the "Vyantaras”, one of the four categories of gods. According to that Sūtra, all those deities were favoured by Vesamaņa as if they were his own offspring ("ahāvaccābhinnāyā”, i. e.,
(1) J. St. S. II, p. 44-47. 2) Vide Jinaratnakosa. (3) 1.1. (4) 1. 1. (5) Tattv. IV, 4 and commentaries.
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