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energetic hero and his indefatigable endeavours for the progress of his community : a beautiful proof for the often denied fact that Jainism, even in the culminating product of its most rigid postulates, viz., the Jaina monk, need not lead to apathy and passiveness, but has indeed much room for concentrated activity and admirable heroism.
The Author of the Rāsa
As stated above, venerable Mangalavijaya is a Jaina Sadhu himself, and a devoted disciple of Vijaya Dharma Süri. Upādhyāya Mangalavijaya is known as an excellent connoisseur not only of the Jaina Sacred Writings and Jaina Philosophy, but of the various systems of Indian Philosophy and their respective canonical scriptures. The results of a comparative study of the Jaina and Non-Jaina Indian philosophical systems he has laid down in the two volumes of his 'Tattvākhyāna' ( Bhavnagar 1921 ), which are written in Gujarati, and abound in most interesting discussions on all the important points of mutual deviation. Besides, Mangalavijaya has also made a good study of indigenous Saṁskṛta Grammar, the results of which have taken shape in his 'Dharmadīpikā' (Bhaynagar 1925 ), a Samskrta grammar which, though based upon the Siddhahema, contains all the materials in quite a new, and very clear, arrangement: all the respective terms of all the different classes of declension, conjugation etc. being grouped together according to Western method, and various new paradigms being added. On the special field of Jaina dogmatics, logic etc., the learned Upādhyāya has been very busy too, as his various publication show. There is, from his pen, a “Jaina Tattva Pradīpa'(in Saṁskṛta), which gives a summary of Jaina dogmatics a 'Saptabhangi Pradīpa', which deals with a group of problems of Jaina logic a ‘Dravya Pradīpa', and a ‘Samyaktva Pradīpa', all of them in Gujarati. His ability as a poet he has shown before in his 'Dharma Pradīpa', a collection of spiritual hymns, and in the above-mentioned hand-book for a Pūjā-ceremony of Vijaya Dharma Sūri.
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