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Dr. Charlotte Krause : Her Life & Literature
To achieve this, certain portions of the extremely popular 'Śrīpālaräsa' composed by Yaśovijaya, representing the Tapā Gaccha, were approved as the basis of the pūjā text, while Jñānavimala Sūri on behalf of the Vimala Gaccha and Devacandra on behalf of the Kharatara Gaccha contributed each a number of stanzas prepared ad hoc, a compilation which proved so successful that it forms even now the most frequently used pājā text of the Svetāmbara community.
In any case, it is certain that Nayavimala-Jñānavimala was an admirer of Yaśovijayajī. It would thus have been natural for him to show his reverence for the great philosopher and scholar by opening his hymn with the two syllables which the latter loved so much. And in fact he opened it not only with those two syllables, but with the whole phrase which follows them in one of Yaśovijaya's works, the ‘Pratimā-śataka', which likewise beings with the words ‘Aindra-śreņinatā'113. Not only this much, but in this very way of expressing his veneration, our poet seems to follow the example of Yaśovijaya, who opened his Sankheśvara-Pārsvanātha-stotra with the words "Ananta-vijñānamapāstadosas' in imitation of Hemacandra's 'Anyayoga-vyavaccheda-dvātrimśikā' ( which begins 'Anantavijñānamatīta-dosam' ), and who, at the end of some of his works, used the word 'rahasya', the literary stamp of the erudite neo-logician, Pandita Mathurānātha, who had been his teacher, and whom he greatly admired."14
Like the preceding two hymns, Nayavimala's 'Sankhesvara-Pārsvanātha-stavana' addresses itself to the image of a particular place of pilgrimage, here the time-honoured and much worshipped statue of Pārsvanātha at Sankheśvara, an ancient Jaina place situated 16m. from the B.B.C.I. Railway Station Harij in the Radhanpur District of Gujarat. Its history and legends have been dealt with in detail recently, in a monograph entitled 'Sankheśvara Mahātīrtha' ( in Gujarati ) by the learned Muni Jayantavijaya (Vijayadharma-Sūri Jaina Granthamālā, No. 57 )115, where also the pertinent epigraphic, as well as literary records are given. The
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