Moksha Marg Prakashak

Author(s): Todarmal Pandit
Publisher: Kundkund Kahan Digambar Jain Trust

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In the present available form the book Moksha Marg Prakashak has nine chapters. The first eight chapters are complete but the ninth chapter is incomplete. By the manner the ninth chapter was started, it clearly seems that the subject of Right Belief was to be propounded and clarified in all its details. But alas, much could not be written. Only the nomenclatures of the eight qualities of Right Belief and twenty-five blemishs to be avoided could be listed. Their characteristics could not be described as desired.
In the original manuscript, indications are available to show that the author wanted to give a second thought even to the sequence and chapter headings of various chapters. At the end of the incomplete ninth chapter Panditji had a plan to write many more chapters. At twelve places in the available nine chapters clear indications are found to show his inner desire to throw light on various issues at appropriate places. This means that had this book been completed as per the author's hidden plan, it would have run into about five thousand handwritten pages throwing detailed light on RightBelief, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct, the basic fundamentals of the path of liberation.
This book has been written in the analytical prose-style; through the medium of question-answer the subject matter has been deeply clarified. The subject matter of this book is highly philosophical, but whatever topic has been chosen for discussion, it has been successfully clarified fully, keeping in view all the possible supplementaries relating to it. While studying the book whatever question is likely to crop up in the mind of the reader, the same is found raised in the next line along with its explanation, and therefore, the curiosity of the reader is very well maintained throughout.
The construction of sentences is brief and the style of clarification logical and analytical. Though unnecessary expansion is avoided, yet no topicis left incomplete due to brevity of style. Whatever topics are touched by the author, no aspect of the same is left unclarified. The style is so charming and unique that even the totally unknown topic has become easily graspable.
For clarifying the subject matter, sufficient use of popular examples is found. The example of the patient and physician has