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Atmanriksanam of 130 verses (pp 73-95), the Mangaläcaranopahita-fodhakaryakramah of 109 verses (pp 96-114), the Siddhanta-rahasyam of 41 verses (pp 115-121), the Sridhari-tikánusmrth of 71 verses (pp 122-129), the Śritīrtharaja-prayaga-stavah of 31 verses (pp 130-135), the Śri-rädhä-stavah of 101 verses (pp 136-147), the Sri Val Dhamaväsi-P Bhû Sîtärämäcārya-suprabhatam of 50 verses (pp 148-156), the Atma-nuvedanam of 138 verses (pp 157-180), the Mangalam of 149 verses (pp 181-206), the Mangalabhümıh of 98 verses (pp 207223), the Bhajata re manuja kamalävaram of 120 verses (pp 224-244), and the Jagadäcärya 108 Śri Visvaksenäcäryänäm samstavah of 24 verses (pp 245-250) The last two pages give an Errata
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Of these the Gangastava, the Śri-tirtharāja-prayāga-stava, the Śrī-rädhä-stava and the Bhajata re manuja kamalāvaram are concerned with philosophical topics and are conducive to mental peace, if they are recited daily for some time and memorized Some of his thoughts incorporated in the verses of his Atma-nuvedanam are really interesting and instructing to people in general and politicians in particular Thus, for instance, the verse "Ya rājanītir na manoratha-plutā, āprajājanānām anurodhakarmanā Samāśrită sangatimantrana"drtā, Sa naiva lokābhyudaya-prabhāvii " suggesting that the administrative policy that is bot ambitious, not supported by public mandate and not honoring the cooperative thinking, is not likely to conduce to public welfare The poet has used a vanety of poetic metre which testify to his nch scholarship and profound literary equipment NMK.
ANEKANTAVĀDA EKA SAMİKṢĀTMAKA ADHYAYANA (Hindi) by Dr Rajendralal Doshi, Ganganath Jha Kendnya Sanskrt Vidyapeeth, Allahabad, 1982, a-th 363, price not printed
This book incorporates the doctoral dissertation of Dr Doshi, at present working in the Ganganath Jha Central Sanskrit University, Allahabad, as a Pandit scholar Muni Vidyanand of Mudabidri Jain Math as contributed a Foreword entitled 'Anekanatavāda Aura Syadvāda' in Hindi
Dr Doshi has noticed two points after deep study of the works on philosophy and ancient scriptural literature that there has been prevalent in India night from the Vedic times two parallel thought processes, one of which was the Anekantaväda and the other was parallel ones resembling the Anekäntaväda
