Aptamimansa

Author(s): Vijay K Jain
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Aptamīmāmsā
Aptamīmāṁsālaňkāra or Devāgamālankāra) of Ācārya Vidyānanda comprising 8000 verses, and a comparatively brief treatise Aptamīmāmsāvịtti (known also as Devāgamavịtti) of Acārya Vasunandi.
Ratnakarandaka-śrāvakācāra is a celebrated and perhaps the earliest Digambara work on the conduct required of a Jaina householder (śrāvaka) for the acquisition and safekeeping of the Three Jewels (ratnatraya) comprising right faith, right knowledge and right conduct.
Svayambhūstotra is a fine composition in Sanskrit dedicated to the adoration of the Twenty-four Tīrthankara, the Most Worshipful Supreme Beings. Through its 143 verses Svayambhūstotra not only enriches reader's devotion, knowledge, and conduct but also frees his mind from blind faith and superstitions. Rid of ignorance and established firmly in the right faith, the reader's mind experiences ineffable tranquility and equanimity.
Yuktyanuśāsana, comprising 64 verses, evaluates in a logical manner the beliefs that lead to the attainment of the state of Supreme Bliss as against those that lead to the continuous wandering in the three worlds.
Stutividyā (Jinaśataka), as the name suggests, is the adoration of the Supreme Beings (Tīrthankara). Acārya Samantabhadra has skillfully used highly ornamental language in this work; for instance, the first half of the line of a verse becomes its second half by using the same letters in reverse order*. Notwithstanding the floridity of language, each of the 116 verses of the treatise carries profound
* Verse 10 reads as under:
भासते विभुताऽस्तोना ना स्तोता भुवि ते सभाः । 21: fal: a TGI I IR ildegal: forum In both lines, the latter half is the reverse arrangement of letters used in the first half.
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