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which is now destitute of Jainism and Jainas, and inhabited by a flesh-eating population, amongst whom not a single reminiscence of the past glories of Jainism has survived. He regarded it his duty as a real son of Mahāvīra, to work there for the re-establishment of non-violence, and even proceeded as far as distant Calcutta, where the initiation of live of his disciples was celebrated with unheard-of splendour and display, and where the very elite of national erudition used to hang upon his lips. Vijaya Dharma Sūri Bibliography
These few points may suffice to illustrate the fact that the subject of the present booklet is a worthy one, an opportune one, and an attractive one. To support this, it may be added that venerable Vijaya Dharma Sūri's personality and life has come to form the subject of a great number of books and pamphlets, leaving aside the mass of articles and other contributions to newspapers, magazines, and books. It all the resp. titles could be enumerated here, it would appear that Vijaya Dharma Sūri has been extolled not only in Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Bengali, Simhalese, Samskrta, English, German, French, Italian, but there exists even a highly artistic poem in Prākrta in his honour, from the pen of the famous Saṁskrta writer and poet Nyāya Vijaya, who is one of the Ācārya's disciples ( Benares, Vira Samvat 2434 ). Not only this much, but there are even two different text-books for a Pūjā ceremony to be celebrated in his honour, which have been practically used many times ( During the last rainy season, I witnessed two Pūjā ceremonies of Vijaya Dharma Sūri in Bombay. ). One of the two texts was written by the author of the present ‘Vijaya Dharma Sūri Rāsa' and bears the title of 'Sri Vijaya Dharma Sūrīśvaraji Mahārāja ni Aştaprakārī Pūjā'(Agra, Vira samvat 2451, in Gujarati), the other, composed by Munirāja Vidyā Vijaya, the celebrated orator and writer, in India, is entitled 'Sri Vijaya Dharma Sūri Mahārāja Ki Aștaprakārī Pūjā’(Bhavnagar, Vīra samvat 2451 ). ..
Only some of the biographies of Vijaya Dharma Sūri, such
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