Essentials of Samadhishataka

Author(s): B M Chamke
Publisher: S B Chamke Barshi

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Logic, Philosophy, Grammer, Ayurveda, Literature etc. He was a poet of a high rank and his poetry discerned rationality in the universe and formulated inexhaustible Truth and held remaining as alternate approaches to this truth. A large collection of writings attributed to him has come down to us, most of them is genuine. Many of his books, however, seem to have been lost. Some of his famous books are : 1) Jainendra Vyakaran 2) Samadhi Shatak 3) Ishtopdesh 4) Jpinabhishek 5) Chhand Shastra 5) Vaidya Shastra 7) Dash Bhakti 8) Sarvarth Siddhj. etc. These books are an undying contribution to Indian mind and to that of Western too!
If we go through these books, the master pieces, we find he has combind therein four different roles that of a poet, a philosopher, a grammarian and a Vaidya.
He was a great scholar and ascetic of a very high rank possessing miraculous and divinely powers. I claim on his behalf that he was