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अनुसंधान - १७•56
find a beautiful description of the spirit of adventures of both heroes and heroins in such Dharmakathās; but in the end we find them renouncing the worldly pleasures and accepting the descipline of religious obedience. Such religious stories are normally interwoven on one side with adventure and on other side with religion. We can thus label such stories as having an objective of admoniting religion. Acarya Haribhadra
Epoch-maker writer as he was Acarya Shree Haribhadra is the author of the book under discussion. He has extensively written both in Prakrut and Sanskrut. Most of these were written in the 8th century A.D. and they throw a good deal of light on different aspects of our culture then. From this one and other contemporary works it seems that Rājasthān in particular and Bharat in general had advanced towards religious prosperity and the credit of which goes to Acārya Shree Haribhadraji.
Pivotal theme of SK
The central theme of the Book, i.e. Samarāicca-Kahā, is that human life is full of miseries. Jealousy, enmity, rivalry et cetera are the vices which are quite visible in humanlife. To get rid of them every one should live pious and moral life. Negligence or idleness in observing a moral life leads one's to bad results. To convince this object to his readers, Haribhadraji has used the approach of telling stories within the main one. From this, one can surmise that many parts of our country then was engulfed and enclamped more by wickedness, immorality and injustice and to keep oneself away from such unrighteouness these stories have prophesed to live a life of non-violence and morality. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th Bhavas describe in detail the force of Māyā, Lobha and Anruta. At the same time the remedy for this has also been narrated. Acārya Haribhadraji had very clearly pointed
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