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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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10, GALA-SRI-VARDDHAMANASORI-PRABANDHA
Thie tratter of this prabandha is not traced anywhere else,
CONCLUSION: The fore-going comparative study leads us to the following conclusions:
(1) Out of the ten pralandhas of LPS four viz. those of Sahasralinga saran, Namala-målini, Kumarināņă and Galasrivarddha má na sūri are unique inasmuch as they are not traced anywhere else.
(2) One prabandha viz. that of Jagaddeva has very few details of a mipor incident and a few epithets common with another Prabandha-work.
(3) Two small portions of another one viz. the Ganaya-manaya-indrajali.prabandha are found in two different works, one having mostly the same wording in changed order and another a very brief account.
(4) Different versions of three prabandhas viz. those of Madana. bhram a - in a hårāja, the Ruulānis Siddhi and Buddhi and Srimata appear in one or more of the standard Prabandhu-works.
(5) As many as eight other versions of the remaining one viz. Vikramaditya-tañadunda cchaira prabandha are available in Sanskrit and several others in Prakrit and soine of the niodern Indian languages.
(6) "The archaic, simple and direct nature of the language and style of the present text shows that its versions of the different pratandhas are the earliest ones--which factor enhances the importance of LPS all the more.
VI. Probable Sources The fore-going discussions have revealed the fact that the prabandhan versions of the present text are the earliest among the ones available at present. Thus it is not possible to find out any literary sources for any of the prabandhas of LPS. In all probability the floating literature, the oral traditions, the popular folk-tales may rightly be regarded as the real sources of the stories of these prabundhas.
It may also be noted that the LPs, though containing the earliest available versions of the stories whicerned, can in no way be considered as a source. book for the later writers, because its versions are mostly succinct and certain important details given therein are absent in these later works, which, at the same time, present such other details as act abseot in LPS. II
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