Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1915 Book 11 Jain Itihas Sahitya Ank

Author(s): Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference

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Shri Jaina Confertnce Herald.
This mode of expression is quite common. A man being an atheist on reading hang of H. turns out to his right sense and becomes a Jain. Can we ever regard it as a want of modesty or even a presemption on his part if be says in acknowledgment of his greatfulnese that the book was composed for him. Thereby of course he does not lose sight of the fact that so many generations are already benefitted by the book. In my opinion this is quite a natural trend of the expression of deep sense of duty.
This theory easily explains the two more verses of the cafea relating to H. They are as under:
विषं विनिर्धूय कुवासनामय, व्यचीचरद्यः कृपया सदाशये । अचिंत्य वीर्येण सुवासनासुधा, नतोस्मि तस्मै हरिभद्रसूरये ॥
and आचार्य हरिभद्रो मे धर्मबोधकरो गुरु ।
प्रस्तावे भावतो हंत स एवाद्ये निवेदितः ॥ Now what is the function of s ight in the first akala ? The whole thing is done by age and agier while the function of ga.
19t is beset with so many attendances that his function purely turns out to be useful to him on references only. so also his
AJIT sista, aratiaatqiofi and HEFUTOTTAra are symbolical showing that all these have been gathered from the reference.
At p. 80 of fas. I Thalat is said to be endowed with all the knowledge future and past of himself which Sid. very well knew that H. was not. My meaning is that Sid. never saw Hari, he never came into his contact and that what he ascribes to him is simply a repetition of the common form of an Indian poetical expression. At the most it can b3 taken as an exagger ation ( a figure of speech ), but it not only disproves the theory of both the personages being contemporaries, but the words starta Trat distinctly separ.. tes them by a wide gulf. One more possible explanation is that the ascription of the function of being rather imaginative and symbolical, the words.