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Vol XXII, 1998 BRIEF NOTICES
263 NANDANA-KALPATARUH (Sanskrit), compiled by Kīrti-trays, First sākhā, Shri Jain Granth Prakashan Samiti, Khambhat, 1999, pp 93, Rs Nil This work is an anthology of devotional Sanskrit poems of the three 'Kirti'-, viz, Muni Dharma-kīrti-vijaya, Muni Kalyāna-kīrtı-vijaya and Muni Ratna-kirtivijaya, over and above those of their preceptor Ācārya Vijaya-śīlacandra-sūrı The last one has contributed devotional songs about all the twenty-four Jinas, cast in the form of classical musical pieces, which one feels have been personally sung by the author The poetic songs about 30 and covering first 31 pages in all, are followed by a tribute, and a biographical account, many other narrative pieces in Sanskrit prose Each page of the book is marked with a black and white picture of a tree This is, in fact, the first issue of a devotion-oriented Sanskrit journal, to be published at irregular intervals, perhaps when sufficient number of poems and prose pieces are received for publication in it, which betrays the poet and musician in the holy personality of a Jain Acārya, who seems to be grooming his disciples too on to his path NMK. MUKTAKA-SATAKA (Hin.) by Digambara Jainācārya 108 Śri Vidyāsāgara i Mahārāja, publ Vijay Kumar Jain, New Delhi, 1995, pp 26 Price Thinking and retiocination This book being a collection of 102 verses, no list of contents has been given The book starts with a colour photograph of the Ācārya, on the first inner page, followed by the printer's page, dedication, introduction, short life-sketch of the Ācārya and his works, and then the poetic pearls A couple of specimen may be presented here
Kyom bhatakatā tū mudhā, Kyom dukha sahatā bahudhä Taba mitegi yaha ksudhā, Jaba milegi nija sudhā 1|27||” Sapta-svarom se atita, Suna Rahā hüm Samgīta
Mano vinā kā tā, tuna-tuna dhvanita apăra ||77|| Here in the first verse the Poet-Ācārya points out of the futility of roaming from place to place and person to person, with the added remark that the spiritual hunger will not be satisfied till one attains to the inner joy of the Selfrealization in the second verse he seems to have reached a point in his
