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of Gujrat, to the
author of many
Jain faith. He also became the works, the estimated bulk of which is 35,000,000 couplets, of 32 syllables each. He lived 84 years. One wonders how he was able to compose such a large quantity of new literature. Tradition tells us that it was the usual practice of this great scholar to keep about him several scribes. After breakfast, he would ask about forty of them to take their seats around a tank of ink, with pen andpaper. He would then walk round the tank and first dictate to scribe No. 1 the first verse of a work on Grammar which he would be No. 1 is writing it down, on, go to scribe No. 2 and
then composing. While the monk would move
dictate to him the first verse of a work on Prosody. In this way, he would dictate to the forty scribes, one after another, the first verse of each of the forty new works which he would be composing at the same time. Having finished the first round he would come again to scribe No. 1 and dictate to him the second verse of the work on Grammar, without losing the thread of the plan of the work. Following this system, he would compose forty works on forty different subjects in a few days. The voluminous works, some puplished, others in manuscript only, of this scholary monk leave no doubt as to his capacities and the wonderful memory he possessed, in-days when there were no printed books, no system
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