Samvatsari Pratikramana

Author(s): Ila Mehta
Publisher: Ila Mehta

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Mattam ghantarven prasuta- madjalam puryantam samantat;
Aarudho divyanaagam vicharati gagane kamadah kaamrupi; Yakshah sarvanubhutirdishatu mam
sada sarvakaryeshu sidhdhim. (4)
This stuti describes Samyakdrishti - concerning devs and devis.
Please grant me success in all fields, oh Yaksh, who fulfils all desires, who can take any form and who lives in the skies. The one who sits on an elephant which is blue like a cloudless sky, has dreamy eyes, whose ivory tusk shine like the full moon, with the sound of many bells around its neck and with water spouting from his nose. (4)
This stuti is written by Shri Balchandrasuri, who was a disciple of Hemchandracharya. As Shri Balchandrasuri had a difference of opinion with his guru, his stuti was not accepted by the congregation. But after his death, he became a Vyantar dev and started troubling the people. To circumvent this problem, the congregation accepted his stuti and now it is recited in all the three big Pratikramans - Pakshik, Chaumasi and Samvatsari. This stuti is written in Sanskrit in a very ornamental and descriptive style. it contains praises of the Jina, the Jinagams (scriptures) and the Shasandevs, the devs who serve the Tirthankars and protect the congregations.
(થોય પૂરી ‘નમો અરિહંતાણં' બોલીને કાઉસગ્ગ પારવો.)
( પછી યોગમુદ્રામાં બેસી બે હાથ જોડી નીચે મુજબ બોલવું.)
શ્રી તીર્થંકર પરમાત્માની તેમના ગુણો દ્વારા સ્તવના Namutthunam, arihantänam, bhagavantänam. (1) Äi-garänam, tittha-yaränam, sayyam-sambuddhänam. (2) Purisuttamänam, purisa-sihänam, purisa-varaPundariänam, purisa-vara-gandha-hatthinam. (3) Loguttamänam, loga-nähänam, loga-hiänam, Loga-paivänam, loga-pajjoa-garänam. (4)