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Last portion of the work in which the date of completion and the poet's family account is given runs as under:
कहउँ जाणि कुलु प्रापणउं परवाङ भणाउं ।
धम्मे साहुहि पणतिउ प्राजिहि पैतु नाउं ।। उदैसाहि दिउ भोया ए तोनिउ लघु भाई।
टिहिडा गयरि वसन्त देल्ह चउबीसी गाई ।। हउ तु म्ह गोरउ पुछिउ बुद्ध कहा महपाइ ।
तेरहसइ इकहत्तरे सवच्छरु होइ ॥ मासु बसन्तु प्रतीतउ अलखइ तिज दिन होइ ।
गुरुवासरु पणिज्जइ रोहिणि रिसु गुणेहु ।। ब्रह्मा जोग पसिद्धउ जोइमु एम कहेइ ।
पढइ पढाबड रिणसुरणाइ लिहि लिहा जो देई
भब समुदु मो उत्तरइ मोक्ग्वपुरह सो जाइ ।।
3 PRADYUMNA CARITA'.
Pradyumna Carita was composed by the poet Sadhāru in the year 1354 A.D. It is a work on the life of Pradyumna, the son of Sri Krişna and one of the great personalitics in the Jaina Mythology. The work contains 701 stanzas in various metres, specially in caupai. The language of the work is Brijabhash, and probably it is the
first work in Brijabhāṣā. It is a very good work and possesses literary merits. The method of description is very simple and easily understandable. It was composed in the Arracha town which is on Kanpur-Jhansı line. Two manuscripts of this work have been discovered in the Jain Sastra Bhandar of Jaina temple Badhicanda, Jaipur, & Jaina Sastra Bhandar of Kama. The first manuscript was written in 1548 A. D. and the other in the 17th Century. The main Rasa of the work is 'Vira' because one third of the stanzas are related to Vira Rasa. The work may be divided into six sargas, and there is description of war in every Chapter. Apart from other things, the work is very much important from linguistic point of view. The beginning and end of the work is as follows:
सारद विगु मति कवितु न होइ, सरु पाखरु गवि बूझइ कोइ । सो सधार पणमइ सरसुति, तिन्हि कहु बुधि होट कतहुती ।। १ ।।
1. Published by S. D. Jain Atiśaya Kśetra Sri Manāvīrji in 1960.
