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Introduction
13 (iii) Śri Subhavijayagani, a versatile genius, composed several works, the most important of which were -
(a) cruraifa; (b) PAGACHE (c) qfar on (b) (d) WARAICTE The author gives this information about his guru Śri Hiravijayasuri -
He had the capacity and respect to tender advice to King Akbar. He won the title TC75 from him. He rendered all beings fearless in a very short time. He got the places of pilgrimage like Raivata, Satrunjaya etc., made tax free.
The following features of his Vrtti 'Makaranda' may be noted :
(i) While the author writes his Vrtti on the 124064 carafe as he has specified in his colophons, he comments on some sūtras and Vrtti that 'Parimala' leaves untouched. Sometimes he gives his comments even to throw greater light on 'Vrtti' and 'Parimala', detailed by Amara Candra.
(ii) He accepts 'Parimala' as a very scholarly and valuable Vrtti and refers to it at some places in his own work. Mostly he accepts it as authentic and asks his readers to refer to it for full clarification. With these remarks, he mostly prefers not to repeat what ‘Parimala' has added. His work thus acts also as a supplement to 'Parimala', but it is a supplement of no mean order.
(iii) Mostly he is very brief and perfectly to the point in his comments on the stabakas, the only exception being 3.1, on which he is very elaborate. Again, he gives no comments on M67191 (2.2) and goes straight to 37519TETYT in 2.3. In his treatment of ufafana, he prefers to comment only on 315458414F419hle. Again, when he comes to Hoof (4.4), he just states that T i fa 7 Tema: and proceeds to 4.5, where his comments are only half a printed page.
(iv) He is thus a very balanced writer, knowing fully well, both the purpose of his work and the limits that he has set for himself. He is mostly to the point. He scrupulously follows the stabakas and the words of the Sūtras and 'Vrtti', and he goes on adding his supplementary remarks.
(v) Some of his contribution is highly scholarly and original. To illustrate, his study and treatment of powers of words [PTG91f5] is very much interesting, though based on the views of Mammata and Hemacandra.
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