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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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INTRODUCTION
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are occasions for its depiction in privation. It is Radha and Krsna that are made to stand before us in all their moods, and in different contexts, seasonal settings and passional environments. Jayadeva is a devotee of Vispu whose charms in the incarnation of Krsna are presented by him in lovely grace, often with amorous touch, giving full scope to his poetic and musical potentialities.
Panditācārya presents a different picture. His hero is a Tirthakara, Vrşabha-Jina, who is a Vītarăga, i e, one who is completely free from passions like rāga, attachment etc. His theme is not confined to one birth but runs over ten births, partly on the earth (sometimes among Vidyadharas ) and partly in heaven. This selection of ten births only may correspond to the ten Avatāras alluded to by Jayadeva at the beginning of his poem. The spirit of renunciation is writ large on the theme of Panditācārya, but after all he must make his poem engrossing and entertaining. So he introduces contexts of Śsigara in superhuman births. The pleasure movements of Lalitānga in the company of his beloveds in the park (iii) and the description of the beauty (a bit conventional ) of Śrīmati ( vii, in separation ) afford amorously entertaining contexts. The descriptions of two portraits give ample opportunity to the author to express some of his poetic ideas ( v-vii ). Paņditācārya has for the back. ground of his theme a good deal of Jaina mythology and a pretty large number of concepts common in Jainism, viz , rebirth. efficacy of Karman, jati-smarana, conventional life in heavens, renunciation, Bhoga-bhumi, Kalpavřkşas, sixteen dreams, the causes that lead the soul to
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