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REMARKS ON THE TEXTS
stuti is published. It is a single leaf, containing 5 stutis in Sanskrit and Gujarati, without a colophon. Paper and ink are ordinary. The writing is in 17 lines of rather modern Devanāgari. The MS. appears to be at the utmost 100 years old. Our stuti is the first text, its end being marked by the legend "fer sit aircrafa: 11811". The wording is very faulty, necessitating various emendations, as the apparatus shows. To the best of my knowledge, the stuti has not been published before.
7. THE MAHĀVÍRA-STUTI.
This poem belongs to the same category of hymns as the preceding one.
It proclaims to be a creation of Ācārya Jinapati Sūri, the 46th pontiff of the Kharatara Gaccha, whose name is contained in the last stanza, in a slesa characteristic of the former', and whose Guru, Acārya Jinacandra Sūri, is likewise alluded to, in the third stanza.
Jinapati Suri? was born in V. S. 1210, ordained in 1218, invested with the Acārya title in 1223, and died in 1277. He is known not only as an influential pontiff and the Guru of celebrities like Acārya Jinesvara Sūri (his successor), Upadhyāya Jinapāla, Vācaka Sūraprabha, Pūrņabhadra Gaņi, and Sumati Gaņi, but also as a hymnist and author of commentaries. The following works are from his hand:
(1) Caturvimsati-Jina-stavana, published,
(1) Cp. the conclusions of the Cintamani-Parsvanåtha-stotra and the Caturvim sati-Jina-stava, in Jaina-stotra-sandoha II, p. 47, and I, p. 209.
(2) Vide J. G. K. II, p. 677, and J. St. S. I, Prastāvanā p. 35, and II, Prastavaná p. 31. (3) J. St. S. I., p. 206-209.
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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