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Introduction
as Sthānāriga, Ācārāriga, Sūtrak’tāriga, Samavāyāriga, Bhagavati, Nandi, Uttarādhyayana, Daśavai kālika Jambūdvípaprajiñapti etc., the non-canonical Jaina works such as Adhyātmakalpadruma, Aștapāhuda, Ātmānuśāsana, Karmagrantha, Gommațasāra, Tattvārthasútra, Dravyasarigraha Devāgamastotra, Padmanandi pañcavinis'ati, Pravacanasāra, Bhagavati ārādhanā, etc., the non-Jaina works such as Yogavāśistha, Bhāgavata, Vicārasāgara, Maạiratnamālā, Panjīkarana, Vairāgyaśataka, Dāsabodha, Sundaravilāsa, Prabodhaśataka, Gītā etc.. Besides, Śrīmad has quoted from and sometimes commented on works like Prakaraņa Ratnākara, Sarvodaya jñāna,AnandaghanaCovīst, Pancāstikāya, Samayasāra Nataka, Uddhava Gitā, Sripālarāsa, Devāgamastotra, Yogaśāstra, Samādhisataka, Lokatattvanirņaya etc.. In addition to this he has freely quoted saint poets such as Narasimha, Dayārāma, Prītama, Kabīra, Muktānanda, Akhā, Manoharadāsa, Mīrā, Sahajānanda, Choțama etc.. This also shows that Śrîmad had a good knowledge of languages such as Sanskrit, Prakrit, Hindi, Gujarati etc.. Thus he mastered the contents of various philosophical and religious works written in various languages in a very short time. It was simply due to his extraordinary intelligence, grasping power, phenomenal memory, an
