Jain Journal 1972 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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OCTOBER, 1972
Acarya Mallavadi about 1600 years ago. Mallavadi is the foremost logician in the field of Jaina Logic. On the original work of Mallavadi, Acarya Simha Nandi wrote a commentary. The original is now extinct and the only source for the study of the original is the commentary of Simha Nandi. Although it was found most difficult to separate the original work from the commentary, Acarya Labdhisurisvarji undertook this stupendous work in response to the desire of his Gurudeva Kamal Suriji Maharaj and devoted fourteen years to separate the original from the commentary of Simha Nandi and also to clarify the views of the Commentator Simha Nandi and Mallavadi, and for editing and writing his own commentary, the Nyāyāgamānusāriņi. This commentary is written in Sanskrit and consists of about eighty thousand stanzas. Before the publication of these monumental volumes, there were only two or three manuscripts ofsimha Nandi's commentary available in India.
Acarya Labdhi Suriji was in the habit of composing at least one stanza every day. There are several manuscripts awaiting publication. All these dealt with different aspects of Jaina religion. One among them is in the form of questions and answers composed in poetical metre with explanatory notes. It is in Gujarati.
Pragatini Disā : Discourses in Gujarati.
Vyakhyān Delhi : Discourses delivered in Delhi in Hindi.
Vyakhyān Ludhiānā : Discourses delivered in the Punjab in Hindi.
Vyakhyān on Bhagavati Sūtra : In Gujarati ; two parts: The first
part has been translated in Hindi and since published.
One portion of the third part contains only the description of Arhanta. It has already been printed in Gujarati language in Hindi script. There are several discourses on Bhagavati Sūtra awaiting publication.
Murti-Mandana : In Hindi. The cult of image worship in world
religions in the light of history and logic. Written originally in Urdu during the Acarya's tour of the Punjab and later translated in Hindi and Gujarati.
Dayānand-Kutark-Timir-Tāriņā : In Hindi. To counteract Svami
Dayananda's misinterpretations of Jaina doctrines.