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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Every prayer is composed of four poems, addressed to the prayed Tirthankar, to all 24 Tirtbankars, to the Holy Scriptures and to the particular goddess respectively. Kavi Sobhan has paid a great deal of attention to forms and not less than eighteen various types of forms of verses are made use of. Rhetorical figures and a variety of meters enrich the composition. Illiteration illuminates the versification. The arrangement of Padas is masterly wonderful. Nay, even from the grammatical view point, “ the stutis " stand marvellously infallible.
Indeed, the author's creation is the ontcome of his own thoughts. feelings and observation. Hence the present day reader likes to know some thing about the life or the environment of the author before going through the book. But very little was written in the past about the lives of the authors either in their own writings or those of their commentators. However, from the straypieces of information that cau be gathered from TilakManjari. Prabhavak-Charitra and other wellkpown works of Dhanpal, the learned brother of the learted author, and from the contemporary literature, it is ascertained beyond doubt, that the name of the author of “Stuti " is Soblan. In bigbly learned Brabmin family Sobhan was born probably at Ujjaiu in Malva. His grandfather Devarshi, lived in the city of Sankashya in United Provinces. Thereafter he came to stay at Ujjain and thence to Dhara with his son Sarvadeva
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