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नो रोगाः नैव शोकाः नकलहकलनाः नारिमारि.प्रचाराः, नवोंध्यम् समाधिर्न च दुरदुरिते दुष्टदारिद्रतानो, नाश्शाकिन्यो ग्रहानो न हरि करि गणव्याल वैताल जाला, जायन्ते पार्श्वचिन्तामणि नति वसतां प्राणिनां भक्ति भाजाम् ॥
The Jain Swetamber Conference Herald.
Vol. 1
September 1905.
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No. IX
A FIELD FOR REAL WORKERS. (MOTICIAND GIRDIIAR KAPADIA B.A., L L. B.)
It is a fact well known to all educated Jains taking interest in matters religious that there is a rast field of enquiry in Jain Literature, notably in that portion of it which is composed in Prakrit and Sanskrit. Such well-known authors as Haribhadra Sooree, Hemchandra Sooree, or Yasho Vijayji Upad, vaya are too well known to require any introduction. Speaking generally, these three personages stand very high in the Jaiù fermament and may be regarded as the great satellites moving round the wholesome preachings of Shri Jinas. The works composed by these authors are not only voluminous but require a lifelong study 'to appreciate the essence of the philosophy expounded therein.
According to tradition these three personages seem to have composed crores of verses and when we take into consideration tlie inroads of Mahomedaus on the Jain libraries and temples and the profuseness of what little is preserved of these writers and especially of the former two of the aforesaid writers, the legendary statement of their voluminosity seems to be corroborated. To Hemchandra Sooree (more generally known as Hemacharya) who flourished in the eleventh century, in the time of Maharajah Koomarpal, is accorded the honor of composing thirty million verses. Jie used to take a leading part in all the
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