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[ भाग
भास्कर निम्न दोहे में 'जगत्कर्ता का उल्लेख शायद जैनियों को कुछ खटके
धनि धनि मूरत की कला! धनि धनि मूरतकार ।
जग-करता करतार है, तुम करता-करतार ॥७॥ यद्यपि काव्यशैली प्राचीन है तथापि उस में रेडियम का प्रकाश और मोटर की दौड़ भी दिख रही है, यथा
नासहु तम-अग्यान तुम, प्रग्या-प्रमा प्रकासि । जन-हित जनु काउ दिव्य-रुचि, रुचिर रेडियम-रास ॥७॥ बना सर्वदा ही रहै, तब सनेह पेट्रोल ।
जाते पहुँचै मोक्ष का, श्रातम-मोटर पोल ॥८॥ (रचनो अवलोकनीय है)
-हीरालाल, ___RISABH-DEVA.
(THE FOUNDER OF JAINISM) TAuthor, C. R. Jain, Bar-at-law; Publisher, Jain-Mitra-Mandal, Delhi, 1935, price -/4/-]
Barrister C. R. Jain is well-known as the author of many books on Jainism and comparative religion. He wrote a big volume on the life of the first prophet of Jainism, Lord Rishabhadeva, several years ago. The present book is on the same subject in a much smaller and handy size. In eleven short chapters is described in a lucid style the previous ten lives of of Rishabhadeva, his birth and childhood, his family and public life, his renunciation omniscience and his preaching mission. We have then a chapter on the sixteen deams of his son and royal succesor Bharat, who Bensed through them the deterioration of the coming age. Then follows an account of the strength of Rishabha's spiritual followers and his Nirvana. The whole account is strictly in accordance with the Jaina Puranas. The book ends with the 'Last Word' contributed by Mr. Kamta Prasad Jain who has drawn attention to several references to Rishabha and other Tirthankaras of the Jainas in non-Jain literature beginning with the Ve. dic age. In the Foreword and the Introduction added by the author him. self attention has been drawn to the place and importance of Rishabha deva in Jainism and his mention in the Hindu Puranas. There are two illustrations in the book-one of the statue of Rishabhadeva in one museum in Paris (France) and the other of the assembly of Rishabhdeva's devotees after his omniscience, as preserved in the Jaina Siddhanta Bhavan Arrah. The learned author has presented subject in a readable, interesting form and the book deserves to be widely read by those interested in the lives of the Great Teachers of humanity who have lived in the past.
H. L. Jain
