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ful and profound knowledge. He took no less than 24 times to the adoration of the Suri-mantra; and by virtue of his penance of various sorts, he could realise Padmavati and other goddesses who would help him at occasions.
He could control the epidemic in Délavāḍā by composing the renowned "Santikara" stotra He had also quenched the calamity of locusts in the Shirohi State, and as a consequence, king Sahasramalla, on his turn, spread non-violence throughout his land. At the instance of the Stri, many other rulers too, proclaimed non-violence in their respective domains.
Munisundara Suri's best work is the "Tridaśatarangiņi was a respectful communication to his preceptor Dévasundara Sūri. Being about 108 hastas in length, it is unique in the world's literature of respectful representations. It contained many verses accompanied by fine pictures of palaces, padmas, cakras, simhāsanas, aśokas, bheris, prātihāryas etc...A good variety of metres also, was found there It comprised of three stotras and sixtyone tarangas. As ill-luck would have it, the whole of the "Tridadatarangiņi" is not extant today; only a part of the third eulogy is available now This extant part consists of 500 verses and is called "Guruāvalî."-There, we find a concise description of all the preceptors of Tapagaccha ranging from the last Jinapati Mahāvīra Swamin to the author himself From the extent of this Quruāvali, one can have an idea of the vastness of the whole treatise. Its profundity of sense, too, is of a rare type.
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Śri Munisundara Suri's works can be enumerated thus -(1) Adhyatma Kalpadruma, (2) Upadesa-ratnâkara along with the Svopajñāvrtti, (3) Mitra-Catuska-kathā, (4) Pākṣīka Sattari, (5) Santarasa-Bhāvanā, (6) Jinastotra-Ratnakosa, (7) Santikara Stotra (8) Sîmandhara-Stuti, (9) Vanaspati-Sattarî, (10) Yogaśâstra [Bālāvabodha of the fourth Flash), (11) Tapagaccha-Paţṭāvali, (12) Traivedya-Gosthî, (13) Jayānanda-Carita, and (14) Angula Sattari.*
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*The last two compositions, Viz; Jayānanda Carita and Aǹgula-Sattari, are assigned by some to the fortieth Pattadhara, Sri Muni-Candra Sûri.
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