________________
श्रीमद् विजयराजेन्द्ररि-स्मारक-ग्रंथ Sūri's achievements in the field of street were no less, If Jinavallabha pleased Naravarman of Mālwa by his unfaiga, Jinapati gladdened the hearts of the pandits in Prthviraja's court, not only by means of artigia, but by passing a fairly stuff test in ENTE. His description of Pfthviraja's court is excellent. The verse that he presented in gara to the ruler makes good sense, He challanged Padmaprabha for & debate on subjeots like Prakrit, Sanskrit, Mágadhi, Paisachi, and Sauraģeni languages; prose, poetry, grammar, metrics, Poetics, Rāsa, drama, logic, jyotisa ( astrology and astronomy), and Jaina Siddhanta. He also wished his rival to question him about any difficult verse that needed explanation, or to put before him & verse that lacked some root or noun, a question or an answer, or something without which it could not give any sense. He could give the needed verse even if there were either no vowels or consonants; he could restore to their true order the letters of a verse that he heard even once. He knew also about the musical rågas, and could compose to order a song in any råga sung before him.142 These achievements seem wounderful, but that a good scholar was expected to have them can be seen from the various afaretatis of the period as well as the Sārangadharapaddhati, which is full of verses and exercises of this type. For a poet mere प्रतिभा (genius ) was not enough, he was also to have व्युत्पत्ति and अभ्यास.143 eruje was to be under the direction of a poet. Efe was the result of the study of various arts, sciences, and scriptures, 14 4
Grammar
Knowledge of grammar was specially insisted on. An old verse quoted by Jinapāla states that one who tires his hands at any other Sastra, without studying grammar, verily tries to count the steps of a snake that had long ago slipped into water in the darkness of the night.145 His Guru's Guru, Buddhisāgara was the first Svetambara teacher to write a comprehensive Sanskrit and Prākrit grammar, the
142. aratnagigiant ( unpublished ) 143. argitaktefa:, (G. O. 8), p. 8. 144. 14 vaalearing #743174#ung al afeg a siteogagrafi far end Il ell
Ibid. p. 8. 145.21877971, p. 3.
