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studies, finishing the Siddhānta Chandrikā, Siddhānta Kaumudi, Tatva Bodhini, Manoramā, Pañcha Kāvyas (all the five important literary works), works on Figures, Prosody, Logic and Dramaturgy, in all of which he became an accomplished scholar very soon. This was followed by his literary pursuits of the different systems of philosophy, Sānkhya and Pātañjal specially. Thus the period of thirteenth to twentififth year of his life was devoted entirely to literary pursuits, followed by discourses and sermons in Samvat 1966. Due to his extraordinary talents he cau carry on one hundred discourses at one and the same time, a fact to which testimony is borne by personages like Sir Nārāyaṇ Chandāvarkar of Bombay, who was much pleased to admit and admire the great capacity, learning and intelligence of this great sage, endowed with the rare power of discrimination, tranquillity of mind, absence of vanity, energetic enthusiasm and indefatigable exertion. He is an advanced writer and a poet, author of several Sanskrit and Gujarāti works of established repute, of which the following may be noted:Kartavyakaumudi, Bhāvanāśataka, Life of Ajarāmaraji Swārī, Thirty-five versos etc. Many of his articles have been published in several Gujarătī journals. All these have been well put together in Ratna Gadya Mälikā. The present dictionary is the product of the efforts of this learned sage, to whom best thanks are due from men of literary tastes.
Utility of the Dictionary.
It is a happy fact, indeed, to see the growing number of readers of Jaina literature not only in India, but also in countries abroad like England, Italy, Germany, America, France etc. To learn Jaina literature as also to carry on research work, scholars and historians have to study Ardha-Māgadhi. To such goutlemen these volumes, it is hoped, will be useful as a constant companion. To those interested in Philology and Etymologies of Aryan languages and dialects, like Hindi, Gujarāty, Bengālī, and Marāthī as also to those interested in a comparative study of these and such other languages, these volumes, it is hoped, will be found very useful and instructive. These volumes will again be helpful to those interested in
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