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श्रीमद् विजयराजेन्द्रसूरि-स्मारक-ग्रंथ knees were like those of a peaben, or Kali plant. The thigh was like the things mentioned above or it was like the stalk of a jujub plant, or Sami tree or like the legs of a camel or an old cow or bullock. The belly was like an empty leather-bag or Masaka, or & pot of wood to prepare bread. The ribs were like thin rods or leaves; or lines on mirrors or thin rods. The Chest was like a fan made of the leaves of a bamboo-tree. The arms were like dried-up roots of tree. His hands were like an Agasti shrub or dried up cow-dung, or dried up banyan leaves. The neck was like the neck of a water pot, The lips were like dried up pills The tongue was like & dried up leaf of a bunyan tree or palāsha tree or an udumbara tree. The nose was like a piece of a mango fruit. The eyes were like holes of a lute or din-morning stars. The ears were like leaves of root--shrubs like Mula, eto. His head was like the bark of cucumber fruit.
In brief Dhanna could sustain his physical frame only on account of his moral and spiritual greatness and his extra-ordinary power of self-control.
जीवजीवेन गच्छति जीव जीवेन तिष्ठति भाषां भाषित्वा ग्लायति, भाषां भाषमाणो ग्लायति....हुताशन इन भस्मराशिप्रतिच्छन्नस्तपसा तेजसा तपस्तेजःप्रिया उपशोभमानfagfa 11
Eloquent as the description is, it is instructive in the use of words for birds, animals, trees, shrubs, eto., which are almost identical with what we find to this day in Gujarat and Rajasthan, as for instance, og ( 317 ), Anfeurs ( eitt ), àforx (do), atát (alt), gaforer ( 910 ), gif#1 ( gidi-ö$ ), ofanit (ait), 7 ( 7351) Tag ( 1154 ), etc.
The conclusion is obvious. The redaction was in all probability made by persons who lived as monks in Gujarāt and Rajasthan.
To conclude, a critical study of the extant texts of the Jain Sūtras will reveal important features which are sure to throw fresh light on the society of the age of Mahāvīra and his immediate successors an on the subject of linguistics in medieval and pre-Muslim Gujarat and Rajasthan.
I may add that the Sthaviras came as the last-the junior-most, in the order of the Jaina church-ateist, mat, straià and 59/8919.
