Prastavana Trayi

Author(s): Shobhanmuni, Ajitsagarsuri
Publisher: Buddhisagarsuri Jain Gyanmandir

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and literature. The poem is in this way a work of great historical value and occupies a premier position in the contemporary Jaip, Buddhist and Hindu literature.
I should not amit making. mention of Nyayakavyatirtha Himansuvijayji's Gujarati preface which is of first rate importance in connection with this work.
. Moreover, personally I am very pleased to find an eulogistic Sanskrit pen picture in verse of 36 stanzas of my own state Mansa by the learned Muni shree Hemendrasagarji associated with this great poem of unequalled merit composed in the rich, flowing style of the great Jainacharya Buddhisagarji of revered memory.
Scholars and others interested in the Eastern languages and literature will find in this poem a good deal to learn, admire and appreciate. The importance of the poem can hardly be exaggerated. To say the least about it, it reveals the progress and advancement of Jain culture in the past.
Mansa, 5th April 35.
YASVANTSING General: Adviser, Mansa State.