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Introduction
...cky.IT father's name was Șrī Lakshmapa. + In all likelihood the image represents the poet.
We find confirmation of these facts from the Kumārpāla-pratibodha of Somaprabhaşūri which was finished in the year V.S. 1241-A. D. 1185 about 11 years after the death of Kumārapāla. It also tells us that Srīpāla belonged to the Prāgvāta family and he was addressed as 'Kavīndra' and 'Brother' by Șrī Siddhapati. *
The Pra. Cha. tells us that when Devabodha contemptuously asked as to who that blind fellow was, Jayasimha himself introduced the poet. From this work we learn also that Srīpāla had written prasastis for RudraMahālaya and Durlabha Sarovara the same as Sahasralinga and a great Prabandha-composition-known as Vairochanaparājaya probably a play. The prasastis must have been similar to the Vadanagar-prasasti. Some verses of the lake prasasti are quoted in the P. C. and, as we noted, a slab forming the part of the Kārtīstambha of the lake bearing on it a fragment of the prasasti has been discovered. Stray verses of Srīpāla also have been found. * From such fragmentary poems, we cannot
+ See Muni Jinvijaya's Introduction to the play Draupadi Svayamvara of Vijayapāla grand son of Srīpāla pp. 7–22.
x प्राग्वाटान्वयसागरेन्दुरसमप्रज्ञः कृतज्ञः क्षमी वाग्मी सूक्तिसुधानिधानमजनि श्रीपालनामा पुमान् । यं लोकोत्तरकाव्यरञ्जितमतिः साहित्यविद्यारतिः श्रीसिद्धाधिपतिः ‘कवोन्द्र' इति च भ्रातेति च व्याहरत् ॥
[. sfâ ate ( garfen) g. Yuv.] * See Jinavijaya's Introduction to Draupadī Swayamvara. A hymn called Srī Chaturvinșatijinastavanam attributed to Srīpālz is published in the Jaina-stotra-samdoha. p. 121.
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