Silent Soil

Author(s): Vidyasagar Acharya
Publisher: Bhagwan Rishabhdev Granthmala

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The hero of the poem is this preceptor, but for the preceptor himself the ultimate hero is Arihanta Deva:
who lives redeemed from delusion, is devoid of attachment and aversion, whom birth-death-senility-decrepitude cannot touch nowwho is the abode of fearlessness, free from seven types of fears, whom sleep-drowsiness never surroundis blank of sorrow, always devoid of grief. Who has no possession nor association, who is lonely-- He is always absolutely carefree, away from the eighteen blemishes....! (Page 327-328)
From the point of view of poetry the splendour of the figures of speech based on words and meaning is fascinating. High attraction for the poet is that of the word using which in the current meaning he gives it novel edges, uncovers new layers putting it on the whetstone of the system of grammar. The etymology does give us the glimpse of the internal meaning of the word, through it we have the perception of queer and untouched dimensioris. At least fifty such examples can be collected from the poem, if we pay attention to this miracle and not only to the exploring view of the poet, where in the sound of the word adopts different meanings in the echo of many similarities. For example:
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